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A JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL PROGRESS; WITH ESPECIAL SEFE^xE^CE 
TO THE WORK OF THE AMERICAN BOARD IN JAPAN 



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KYOTO, JAPANi SiTUMT, SEPT. IStli, 1906. 



No. 1. 



CONTENTS. 

A Brief Sketch of Miss Dcdlev. 

M. J. Barrows. 
OuB Methodist Protestant Brethren 

AND their Work J. 11. DeForest. 

A Faithful Evangeust...J. tt. DeForest 
The Y. M. C. A. Summer CoiiFERENCE. 

D. I. Grover. 

The Japan W. C. T. U M. J. Pedley. 

Kabuizawa. 

A Union Picnic W. L. Curtis. 

Booton Charges. 

Evolution, Kacial and Habitudinal. 



NOTES. 

Mission News has now passed into 
the full control of the new editors a]> 
pointed by the Mission last May. "NVe 
earnestly request the hearty co-operation 
of each member of the Mission in main- 
taining the high standard of the pajier 
and in making it fulfill the objticts for 
which it is published. 

* * * * 

We expect to signalize the practical 
re-opening of Tottori Station by making 
the November issue of the paper a 
Tottori Number, the larger part of the 
issue being given to a full presentation 
of this field. All who wish extra copies 
of the Tottori Number are requosterl to 
send in their onlers by the first week of 
November. 

* , * * * 

There are a number of copies of the 
Annual Report still on liand. Those 
wishing copies may obtain them by 
sending stamps to cover the postage. 



A Brief Sketch of Miss Dudley. 

Many hearts on l)0th sides o€ the sea 
have l)cen made sad by the nyx»nt ne\vs 
of the passing away from earth of Mias 
Julia E. Dudley, for tAventy-eight years 
a missionarj'-njsident* of Kobe, Japan. 

Miss Dudley was l)om in Napcrville, 
Illinois, Dec. 5th, 1840. Her parents 
were both from New England. Her 
mother, prior to her marriage, taught in 
the first school for girls in the vicinity of 
what is now Chicago. 

As a girl Miss Dudley studied in 
Rockford Seminary, 4infl afteruards 
spent several years in tea'^liing. She 
also cared for her mother during a long 
and painful illness. 

Not long after tlii? loss of her mother 
her thoughts were turned to- work in 
Japan, and she was one of the first lady 
missionaries to come to this country, sIh^ 
and Miss Talwtt (oming together in tho 
spring of 1 873. 

Their -first home was with Dr. and 
Mrs. J. D. l)avfs in Kobe. There are 
those livnng here now who well remeralx;r 
those early days w!ien in spite of stuml> 
Img tongues theso two earnest women 
found their way to many hearts, and 
many hfe-long friendships Were formed. 
The two together started a school for 
girls which l)ecame a nucleus for Koix) 
College, the first building of which was 
put up l(»ss than three year? after their 
arrival. 

]Miss Dudley also gave much time, 
from tlK)se early years, to (church work as 
many of the older Christians in Kol)e, 
Hiogo, Sanda and Akashi well re- 
member. 



MISSION NEWS. 



She and her cousin Mies Barrows 
wore associatqd in \^orIf' for twenty-five 
years. Together they made the first 
evangelistic tour undei tu^en hy Indies in 
the interior, visiting, several cities in 
Chiukoku and ShikoKu. And fix)ra that, 
time on for twenty years she visited 
Shikoku frequently, taking long and 
trying journeys over sea and mountains. 

Miss Dudley liad a remarkable facility 
for finding her way quickly to the hearts 
of those she met, and doubtless there are 
many.wJio dato their fii"st interest in 
Christianity from a casual word spoken on 
Ixmt or train, or at some stopping place. 
• After ten ye^rs here she made her 
first visit iiome, going in the winter of 
1882. 

Returning to Japan two years later, 
she and -Miss Barrows staited the 
Woman's Evangelistic School in Kobe ; 
and from that time her thoughts and 
prayei-s. were centered largely in that 
school She loved the school and lived 
for it. She loved the pupils and followed 
them with tender sympathy after they 
went out from it. She loved the churches 
where she and the women from the school 
were accustomed to work. Each visit 
to them was always better than tlie 
last. 

It was only when failing strength 
made it impossible for her to go on here 
that she^ reluctantly turned her face to 
her native land in. the winter of 1900, 
fully realizing that she would ijot again 
see the land of her adoption. 

The six years since then have been 
years of gradually failing health. She 
made for herself a little home in Southern 
California; which .she took great plea- 
sure in l)eautifying for others to enjoy. 
When she could no longer stand tO 
work among her flowers, she would take . 
a chair and, sitting do^vn among them, 
prune and cut and direct the work of a 
gardner. She was very active in the 
church also, and endeared herself to all, 
working for others while life lasted. 
But she nev^er forgot the work in Japan ; 
and in her letters was the frequently 
expressed regret that she could no longer 
take a part in it 

Her sister was with her constantly 



during the last months of her hfe, caring 
tenderly for her till the end. 

In the spiing of this year she had an 
attack of illness which left her much 
more feeble than before, and with a heart 
trouble which gave her friends much 
anxiety ; still no one thought the end so 
near. 

On the last day she had been up and 
about all day. Retiring (5arly she soon 
l)ogan to suffer fix)m one of the attacks 
of Cardiac Asthma to which she was 
subject and called m her Physician — but 
this time it was the Master's call, hud 
no love of friends or skill of phj^cians 
could hold her back. Aft^r an hour of 
intense suffering she fell asleep to wake 
in the glorious City from which those who 
enter " shall go no more out forever." 

The bodj was taken back to her native 
place and laid to rest beside jmrents and 
friends who had gone before. 

*' At eventide it shall be light" 



Our Methodist Protestant 
Brethren and Their Work. 

In view of the approaching union of 
the Methodist Protestant and Congn^- 
tional bodies, I took occasion on my 
return from the Annual Meeting to 
stop off one night at Nagoya in order 
to get direct information concerning their 
work. I had a cordial welcome in the 
home of Mr. and Mrs. Murphy, and 
made some very delightful discoveries. 

It happened to be the day of the 
monthly meeting of all the workers of 
that district, and I had the good fortune 
to see a group of over a dozen fine 
looking pastors, teachers, and evangelists. 
It happened also to be Mr. Murphy's 
turn to lead. He spoke with fluency* in 
what seemed to me to be excellent Japan- 
ese, and, what was also important, his 
spirit was that of an earnest Christian 
longing to be filled with power for a 
better personal work and a wider Chris- 
tian influence. I was Impressed with 
the apparent cordial relations between 
him and the otheis. If there were any 
"problems" l)etween tlu^n they failed 
to appear. He asked if we had si mi la 



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meetings every month, but I do not 
know of any. 

That evening six of the teachers dined 
with the Miirphys, and I thus had an- 
other chanoe to meet these workers in a 
rfore social way. I. was asked to ad- 
dress the school tlie next morning. I 
never witnessed in any school such a full 
religious servic\ It was almost like a 
Sunday morning in form and spirit. 
After reading a Psalm, the tea(;hcr in 
charge led in a most reverential and 
fitting prayer, followed by the Lord's 
Prayer in which all joined. And when 
I harl finished speaking, the Principal 
clinched my remarks, and then had the 
school sing ** Glory to the Father," after 
which he called on Mr. Murphy to 
pronounce the l)enf)dictlon. 

One thing of significance here is the 
fact that Mr. Oshima, formerly principal 
of the Shizuoka Normal School, is now 
President of this Eiwa (jakko. He is 
one of the great leaders in the Temj^er- 
ance Movement, and his conversion 
w!iile in Shizuoka is one of the b'ist 
stories of Christianity in Japan. I hjid 
once exchanged lettors with him, and was 
anticijmting a meeting with him, but 
unfortunately he was ill and unable to 
attend school. Anyone who wants to 
road his ringing temperanc3 tracts and 
the story of his conversion cixn .^ot them 
at the Methodist Publisliing liousv^. 

Though it has a faculty of thirtnm 
teachers, the school is hardly yet on a 
firm basis, as it has no GovernnKiit 
permission. Therefore students eagt^r to 
escape military ser\'ice leave the school 
before graduation. It is only re^utly 
that its first class has graduated — seven 
memlxjrs. As there is no longer any 
reason for not reo jiving t!ie usual Middle 
School permit, it is planned to secure this 
at once and to double the present num- 
ber of students. 

The progressive spirit of the Mission 
is S3en from sevnnil facts. The manaij:'.i- 
m?.nt of the school is wholly in the ban Is 
of the President and his faculty. The 
pastors and evangelists seemed to me to 
have about the same liberty as with us. 
There are throe districts in the Mission 
centering at Nagoya, Shizuoka, and 



Yokohama. The Chairman of the 
Yokohama District is the former secre- 
tary of C. E. S., Mr. Inanuma, who is 
also treasurer ,of his district, having just 
the same res|X)nsibihties in his district 
that Mr. Murphy has in Xagoya district. 
The work and responsibilities are freely 
jmssed over to the churches, some of 
which are rapidly approaching self-sup- 
jK)rt. Their membership now is over 
800, and it is expected that this year 
will see the 1000 limit reached. With- 
out any reference to imion, it is already 
l)lanned that the entire .Japanese Con- 
ference^ shall bo autonomous when the 
1000 limit is reacrhed. That is, Mr. 
Murphy is now President of the Japan- 
ese Conference, receiving his apjwint- 
nvnt from the Board in America ; but 
before long that official bond wUl bj 
done away with, and the President, as 
well as the Chairmen of the three dis- 
tricts, will Ite elected by the missionaries, 
ordained pastors, and delegates from the 
churches. Their Shadan has five direc- 
tors, two of whom are Jnpan(«e. I 
hi'ard that M<'ssrs. Kozaki and Ebina 
called together tlie M. P. workers who 
w(ire at the Evangelical Alliance meet- 
ings lecently, and found tliem quite 
satisfactory on the union (question. The 
Mission has built thnn^ churches and 
four chapels, but the sj)irit of doing for 
themsfdves is now apjxiaring, in that the 
Christians of Tokyo, Yokohama, and 
Oyama arci taking a heavy sliare in 
three n;nv church buildings. 

Tlie Nagoya field has two missionary 
famili(!S, two single ladies, one pastor, 
and two evangelists. The church has 
just booorae virtually selfsupporting. 
Mr. Murphy might live in his foreign 
house on tlie edge of the city close to 
the school, but for the sake of being in 
the center of the evangelistic work he 
prefers to live in a Japanese house; with 
no si^contl story and no yard. It may be 
goofl for his work, but is bad for family 
I'f'. The Yokohama field has two 
schools and tlin^e churches, one of which 
was well on the way to indejx'udence, 
but the Dowie movement struck the 
missionary in cliarge and infected the 
church. The missionary went home and 



MISSION KEWS. 



the church nearly went to pie(5es, but is 
now recovering itself. 

Everybody kno\^T? tliat Nagoya has 
l)cen one of the hardest places in Japan 
for missionary work, and I could but 
admire the persistent faith that has 
resulted in 130 Christians, a gro\Ning 
Middle School of 115 students, and a 
Kindergarten of 50 children. I had no 
time to see tiie Presbyterian and Epis- 
copalian work, but was delighted to hear 
of the union meetings of all missionaries, 
in whieji at times the Lord's Supper 
is celebrated with no denominational 
distinctions. That is a pleasant advance 
on anything I know of elsewhere. I 
saw the Kumi-ai chapel and met Mr. 
and Mrs. Fuji warn. Notlung but unusual 
weariness prevented me from accepting 
his eaniest invitation to stay over 8un- 
dny and sjieak to his group of fifty 
Christian?. I sinccrcly hope it may Ik» 
my good foitune to sjx^nd Infore long 
at least three days in this the fourth city 
of the empire. 



A Fakhrul Evangelist. 

Sunday morning, June 24th, I prea- 
ched in the Rendai Kumiai Church ; and 
on my way home, I felt a strong desire 
to go to Wakuya and witness the last 
meriting of tlui Christians there with 
tlicir 1k;1ov(hI evangelist, Miura Tetsu- 
ro, who was to start the next morning 
with his family and goods for his father's 
home in 8akata. 

This decision to depart was suddenly 
forced on Mr. Miura by family circum- 
stances and was more than a surprise, it 
was a shock, to his church, the town, and 
n(^ighlK)ring region. His quiet and s(lf- 
effiicing work for ten years had gained 
for hi in more tlinn resp(M*t from all 
classes of people, and has biKni a living 
proof of tlie value of Christianity to the 
community as a whole. "With rare tnct 
hi' had ^rained tlie (X>nfi(l(-nce and g()od 
will of Cifheials, t'jaehers, menrliants, and 
farmers, and had won a deep place in the 
moral and spiritual life, espec-ially of the 
Agricultural College at Kogota. 

When Sanuraa lost ite evangelist, Mr. 



Miura was asked to reach out to this 
place also, which he did to the delight 
and benefit of all. 

As soon as the people recovered suf- 
ficiently from their shock, they set about 
the usual sdbetmktcai, or rather unusual, 
for there were six of these farewell meet- 
ings. In one, a hundred raemlxsrs of the 
Ladies' Patriotic Society were preecnt, 
besides teachers, and, what was most 
marked, the presence of the heir of the 
ancient I^rd of the region, Mr. Watari. 

But the gi*eat<^st surprise to Mr. Mi- 
ura was at the farewell meeting with the 
Agricultural teachers and students. 
With no pre-arranged plan, one student 
arose and said he had been led to Christ 
by Mr. Miura and must be 1>aptised 
Ix'fore he left. Seven more students, all 
of the highest class, one after another 
arose and claimed the siime blessed pri- 
vilege. Mr. Miura was quite amazed 
and, regarding this as a momentary feel- 
ing that might have no suflRocnt basis 
of faith, urged them to wait until they 
knew their own hearts Avith certainty. 
But they knew already and planned at 
once to bo baptised the next Sunday 
evening by Mr. Sawamura, the secretary 
of the DendogAvaisha, who was to Ikj in 
Wakuya at that time. 

So 1 went to see this unusual meeting 
and to share the joy and sorrow of them 
all. A row of fine looking young people, 
thirteen in number, from a dozen miles 
aroimd, stood up and acknowledged 
Christ, by baptism, as their Lord and 
Saviour. It was a splendid proof of the 
fidelity and tact and spiritual power of 
Mr. Miura to see these students and 
merchants and under-officials, and one 
young woman educated in Tokyo, rejoic- 
ing in hoing baptised in the presence of 
the one who had for months and years 
quietly and successfully imparted to them 
the spirit of Christ. 

Mr. and Mrs. Miura and their four 
children have cro.ssed over the moun- 
tains to the shore of the Japan Sea to be 
with his aged father a while. But while 
this field feels his loss, that harder field 
will feel his quiet Christian influence and 
through him Christ will be formed in 
many a heart. 



MISSION NEWS. 



The Y. M. C. A. Summer 
Conference. 



The foreign section of the Y. M. C. A, 
Suramcr Confoi-ence was hold at Sho- 
buta, a little village delightfully situated 
on the seashore near Bcndai, July 20th to 
25th. There were twenty-eight registered 
members in attendance including Associa- 
tion Secretaries, Association teachers in 
government schools, teachers in miasion 
schools and missionary friends. A signi- 
ficant feature was the cordial welcome 
(riven to the visitors at the conference. 
The giiiuho (he^d of the county) greeterl 
them at the station ui Sondai; at Bliio- 
gania the mayor gave a wrdial welcome, 
and at Shobuta the headman and the 
oth<?r village dignitaries met them out- 
side the village and escorte<l them to 
their hotel. This coi-diality was the ex- 
pression of a desire on the part of the 
})eople to show appreciation for the as- 
sistance given them by the foreigners 
(hiring the famine of last winter. 

Adequate attention was given to the 
spiritual needs of the teachers and the 
needs of their Christian work. Each 
day's sessions began with a devotional 
Bible study and concluded with a fellow- 
ship meeting. On Sunday, Dr. Gary 
preached the sermon and, assisted by 
Kev. H. Loomis of Yokohama, adminis- 
tered the Lord's Supper. Following 
this service Dr. Pettee gave a resume of 
the history of the Okayama Orphanage 
with special attention to the course of 
events since the famine ; Mr. Ixx)mis told 
of the Bible Society's work during the 
war, and Mr. Gloason recounted the As- 
flociation's army work. This session was 
very properly introduced as " A Recital 
of tho Acts of the Twentieth Century." 
A meeting held on the beach in the 
afterooon was attended by 200 villagers. 
As a result of interest shown at this and 
a succeeding meeting, two students from 
Waseda and Dclshisha Universities car- 
ried on evans:elistic work throughout tho 
Rimiraer under tho patronage of the Y. 
M. C. A. and missionaries summering 
in the vicinity of Shobuta. A review of 
the teachers' religious work during the 



vear showed an encouraging number of 
baptisms, and, in Hachiman and Hagi 
in particular, great opposition overcome 
and splendid achievement. 

A feeling that the teacher's first duty 
is to his class room ; a healthy <lissatis- 
faction with the service at present being 
rendered, and an eager desire to discover 
and perfiKJt bc^tter methods of touching 
English were manifest throughout the 
sessions devoted to educational work. 
They found expression in papers present- 
ed by Mr. Paul Gerhard of Tfthoku 
Gakuin, Sendai, on " The Future of tho 
Teacher of English in Japan," by Mr. 
E. J. Allen and Mr. P. A. Smith of the 
government schools in Toyama and 
Hiroshima on " English Tc^aching Me- 
thods," setting forth the results of a ycjir's 
study and investigation of this subject, 
and by Mr. Smith on "The Christian 
Teacher's Duty to his Work." Prof 
Frank Muller of the Kobe Higher 
Commercial School supplohiented these 
papers with invaluable suggestions and 
advice. That the impetus of these ses- 
sions might not be lost a committee was 
appointed to continue throughout the 
year a study and investigation of edu- 
cational problems. 



The Japan W. C. T. U. 

The Eleventh Annual Conference of 
the Foreign Auxiliary of the Japan 
"W. C. T. U. was held in the Karuizawa 
Auditorium July 25-27, from nine till 
twelve o'clock each day. Because of the 
continued rain the attendance was small 
but it is safe to say that those who came 
were interested. 

Everyone missed Miss Smart who has 
done so much for the cause of temperance 
and purity in Japan. All regret the 
illness which sent her home to America 
and hope she may soon rc^tuni, bringing 
with her another W. C. T. U: mission- 
ary to assist in this great work. The 
unanimous vote for two W. C. T. I^. 
missionaries for Japan was the most im- 
portant it.em of busineg^jGoOQlC 

The reports of the superint(mdents of 
departments were full of interest. The 



MISSION NEWS. 



urpjoiit call of the Purity Dopartniont to 
>York for the students of Japan and the 
picture of what has beon done in one 
place in* teaching the e^.ildren the eviJa 
of narcotics showed us what miglit be 
done elsewhere. 

The work for the children and youth 
reveals the importance of the df paitmont 
of mother's meetings in getting at the 
homes and mothers. Mrs. Chappell, of 
Aoyama, has fostered this department 
and finds encouragement everywhere. 

Miss Oslx)rne, of the Physical Culture 
Department, reported Miss J^mart's work 
for the Woman's I^niversity in design- 
ing a costume for the girls and otherwise 
aicling tliem. She also empha*<ized tl)e 
growing desii-e of the giils for physical 
exercise* and culture. 

S|)ac(^ forhids more than a meni men- 
tion of Mrs. Pier son's j)lea for rescue 
work ; Dr. Kelsey's report of the Rescue 
Home in Tokyo ; Miss "William's report 
of the Flower Department ; and the 
special addresses by Mr. Muq>hy and 
Miss Pettigrew. 

The twenty-two departments are under 
the care of busy worat n wlio can give 
only the crumbs of time from regular 
work for this cause. Yet in listening to 
the reports it was encouraging to s(h» how 
much has been done in writing, jmb- 
lishlng, and distributing tracts, holding 
public meetings, teaching tlui childixm in 
classes and Simday Schools, nnd in con- 
stantly holding up high ideals of hfe and 
con<luct. 



Karuizawa. 



This little village among the mountains 
of central Japan has become one of the 
most prominent if not the chief summer 
gathering place of the foreigners resident 
in Japan and in parts of northern China 
and Korea. Surrounded by tree-clad 
hills and rusrgod mountain ranges rising 
one Ix^hind the other, with the dull-gray, 
l^arren Asaraa towerintr alx)ve them all, 
it makes a wonderfully l>eautif\d and 
quiet resting place. 

In the last fvw years it has grown 
^^^th amazing rapi<lity until now there 



are s(^veiul lai^ hotels and perhaps a 
hundr(Hl and fifty or more small cottages 
to supply the needs of summer visitors. 
During the past year the old Union 
CTiurch Building has been torn down 
and a much larger and Ixitter appointed 
one erected. 

Tliis new building is kno^vn as the 
Auditorium. During the month of 
August there was hardly an hour of the 
day or evening when it was not being 
use<l for missionary conferences, conven- 
tions, church services, lectures, or con- 
CH^its. As a rule thc-se meetings were 
all well attended; and for the Sunday 
services and evening meetings the Sf^ating 
capacity of al)out six hundnnl was none 
t^o large. 

The^t^e gathenn^f^ ser\*e as a meeting 
gioun<l for miFs'onanc^** of all denomina- 
tions and otluis not en^aaed in mis- 
sionary work. Their value for fcillowship 
and a broadening outlook on the j)roblems 
that must quickly Ix) solved in this 
rapidly changing and growing country' 
can hardly l)e over-estimated. 

Nor were the lighter forms of recrea- 
tion overlooked. Tt^nnis and picnic ex- 
cursions claimed a good sliai e of atten- 
tion ; and this year ]>rovision was made 
for the children in the form of sAvings, 
see-saws, and special tennis courts. Tliese 
were in constant use and thoroughly 
a])preciated by all. 



A Union Picnic. 



On Aufi^ust 22nd the American Boar- 
ders at Kaiuizawa invite<l the Unit<Hl 
Bnthren and Methodist Protectant mis- 
sionaries to join with them in a " Basket 
Picnic" for the purpose of promoting 
mutual acquaintance in view of the pro- 
posed union of the three denominations. 

This union picnic proved to be a most 
delightful social gathenng and was great- 
ly enjoyed by more than thirty adults 
and a small group of children. 

Having broken bread together we 
were no longer as strangers to eiich other 
but as meml)ers of one family, and in 
the '* love-f(^ast " that followed the spi lit 
of hamionv and unitv was clearlv mani- 



MISSION NEWS. 



fested. In a charactoristie DoForest 
speoch our Chairman remarked, that, 
owing to the action of our respective 
(knominations in America, we found our- 
selves somewhat in the position of Japa- 
nese young people who have be<in betro- 
thed without their knowledpje and consent. 
He was sure,, however, that when the 
maniage liad taken place we should find, 
as was often the case in Japan, that the 
arrangement made by the parents was 
a good one and that mutual love, hai)pi- 
neps, and helpfulness would be the result. 

The cordial i-esponses made by re])re- 
sentatives of the U. B. and M. P. Mis- 
sions certainly justified this prophecy. 
Several memlxirs of our Mission followtMl 
with short speeches in approval of the 
])rojX)9ed union, expn^ssing their convic- 
tion that it wouhl result in great good. 

One of tliese speakers calle<l attention 
to the significant meaning that may Idc 
given to the initials "that stand for the 
names of our several Missionarv Boanls. 
'*We are all," he said, " (M. P.'s) 
3/iWo7i<7n/ Feople, all (A. B.'s) Ameri- 
ca ti Brothers and therefore (U. B.'s) 
Vnmceiinng Belieiets in the ITnion ! In 
the future we shall be (M. P.) More^ 
Frogremve; to-day we have made a 
(I^. B.) Unique Beginning y and when 
the union is consummatfxl may we ever 
l)e (A. B. C. F. M.) A Band of Cm- 
secrated Foreign Mimonaries .'" 



Boston Charges. 

Considerable interest and discussion 
has been aroused in the Mission by the 
policy of the American Board, entered 
on at the beginning of the year, of charg- 
ing a commission on all goods passing 
through its hands for the members of 
its various missions. Letters of specific 
inquiry as to the basis of working in the 
figuring out of this commission brought 
a specific and authoritative reply. As 
some in the Mission may not know just 
what this working basis is, it is printed 
here. 

The following is an extract from a 
letter from Mr. Hosmer. 

" Our baas of working is as follows, — 



5 ^o is charged on general mer- 
chandise. 
8 f^ is charged on periodicals. 
15 % \s charged on books. 
2i% IS charged from the amount of 
an invoice in cases where the 
purchase is made direct by the 
missionary and invoice sent to 
our Treasurer for payment. 
There is also a nominal charge of 5fo 
made on forwarding packages sent to us 
by friends of missionaries to be sent in 
our shipments. Where the value is 
small a minimum charge of 25 cents 
will be made, that is there is to be no 
charge less than this amount." 

The specially interesting items in the 
al)ove extract are the last two. Con- 
cerning the two and a half pera»nt charge 
a letter of in<iuiry was s<*nt t^ treasurer 
Wiggin bringing the following reply, — 
"In reply to your inquiry about pur- 
chases made in San Francisco by Mr. 
Tenny, and charged through this oflRoe, 
no percentage is added." Treasurer 
Wiggin also states, — " When orders 
sent to a mercantile house are not accom- 
panied by the Mission Treasurer's draft 
for payment, and when payment has to 
be made by correspondence with this 
(Boston, — ed. Miss. News) oflioe a small 
percentage will be added." It may thus 
be inferred that these charges are only 
added when the business has to be done 
partly through the Boston oflfice. 

We would particularly direct the at- 
tention of the friends of missionaries to 
the last item in the extract from Mr. 
Hosmer' s letter, and would state that in 
addition to this commission charged by 
the Board, which commission is small in 
itself, there are many other charges such 
as freight, insurance, duties, etc. which 
are also added. Missionaries are very 
glad to receive gifts from their friends 
and would not in any way wish to appear 
ungrateful for the remembrances but 
when these charges are deducted from 
his small allowance of ftmds there is 
sometimes an element other than that 
of pleasure mingled with the receiv- 
ing of the gift. For instance, — One 
missionary paid charges of $2.35 on a 
gift which originally cost 12.50; while 



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some instanoea could be given ^\'hc^o 
greater proportionate charges have had 
to be paid by the missionary. A few 
such gifts as these would put a mission- 
ary in a rather embarrassing situation. 



Evolution, Racial and 
Habitudinal. 

In this volume Dr. Gulick has brought 
together with suitable revision and addi- 
tions the more important of his essays 
dealing with certain phases of the doctrine 
of evolution, which have appearal during 
the past twenty years. 

In a paj)er like MiRfiioN News, a 
oriti(?ism of the views sot foith in tins 
treatise would l)o obviously out of j)laco. 
Even a synoj)sis of its cont(aits would, 
we fear, tax the power of attention of 
our readers, — certainly the present writer 
does not feel competent to undertake to 
prepare it. 

Still, as the work of one who for thirty 
years and more served as a missionary 
of the American Boanl, for the most 
part in our own Mission, this book has 
a strong claim upon our notice. Its 
history, too, is impressive. Dr. Gulick, 
as all our readers know, was bom of 
missionary parents in the Hawaiian 
Islands. While hardly twenty years 
of age he became interested in collecting 
snail shells in the valleys of Oahu. The 
collection grew and with its growth 
came the desire to systematise the 
collection and make it tributary to his 
study of the causes of the remarkable 
diversity in forms appearing in adjacent 
valleys, only a few miles removed from 
one another. He had read Darwin's 
account of the Galapagos Islands, and 
some years later the " Origin of Species " 
interested him greatly. 

A close and searching examination of 
the habitat of each vai-iety of snail was 
made and a map of the Island was 
prepared on a scale sufficiently large to 
admit of marking the home of each 
special variety and its geographical re- 
lation to the home of other varieties 



more or less related to it. The resnilt 
was a collection unique, probably, in 
its completeness and in the minute care 
with which it was arranged to ser\'e 
an intellectual purpwc. This collection 
he kept wnthin reach during subsequent 
years while he familiarised himself with 
the literature of the subject. 

In 1887 he visited London, where he 
had interviews wth Darwin, Romanes!, 
and, if we mistake not, Wallace. Under 
the stimulus of these interviews, espe- 
cially those with Romanes, he publishwl 
several essays in the "Journal of the 
Linneau ►^^ociety," and in "Nature," 
which awakened attention lx)th in Europe 
and America. 

At the close of his furlough Dr. Gulick 
nrtumeil to Jajmn and again took up bis 
missionary work ; but he never lost si«^bt 
of his scientific avocation and when, a 
few years ago, the state of his health led 
to his withdrawal from Japan, he deter- 
mined to devote himself to the prepara- 
tion of a systematic presentation of tlie 
results of his studies. 

The argument of these essays is 
directed to showing how large a part 
segregation plays in divergent evolution 
and it is set forth with limitless patience 
and candor. No one, however cursory 
his examination of this work, can foil to 
Ixi impressed with the careful and pro- 
found thought which lies Imck of Dr. 
Gu lick's statements. 

The book is a revelation of what the 
intelligent selection of a theme in early 
life, followed by industry and steadfast- 
ness of purpose through many years, can 
do in spite of what might seem adverse 
circumstances. Its acceptance by the 
Carnegie Institution, on the advice of its 
experts, will give it a prominent place in 
the libraries of the world and, we may 
well believe, it will find acoeptanoe as a 
noteworthy contribution to the cause of 
biological science. 

D. C. G. 

EvoLtiTToy, Racial and HABrruDrNAi*, 
by Rev. John T. Gulick, Washington, D.C., 
Published by the Carnegie Inatitution of 
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fhrfough in Anerrna. 

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Mrs. J. B. Dbvis expeets to sail £pom 
San Francisco on the ** Korea," on the 
twentieth of this month. She brings 
with her Rev. and Mrs. F. B. Brid|;anan 
who are i^etuming to the Zulu Mission 
in South Africa. This will give the 
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Mrs. Bridgman, Mrs. Okls of Miyazaki, 
and Mr. Merle iDavis of Kagasaki are 
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MISSION NEWS. 



The exercises in DOshisha, in observ- 
ance of the Emperor's birthday, were 
held at eight o'clock in the morning and 
were more than usually impressive. 
At nine o'clock there was a brief 
dedicatory service of the enlarged 
athletic grounds. This consisted of a 
hymn followed by prayer by Lt. CoL 
Uno after which Principal Niwa made a 
few very appropriate remarks. Follow- 
ing this the bo3rs held their annual 
athletic sports and, in spite of a passing 
shower or two, had a very successful 
day. A large number of friends and 
visitors were present 

* * * * 

Mr. Lombard has received and 
accepted an appointment as lecturer in 
Literature in the newly opened Dapart- 
raent of Lotters of the Kyoto Imp3rial 
University. 

* * * * 

Mrs. Gordon has given, to the Kyoto 
Branch of the Mission Church, a beauti- 
ful set of linen to be used in the com- 
munion services. It is given in memory 
of one whom the members of the mission 
and all who knew him keep in loving 
remembrance. The members of the 
Kyoto Station, and all others who are 
priviledged to share a communion service 
with them, will always remember, in 
prayer, those whom he held dear. 

* 5|C :k * 

The number of visitors attending the 
English services in Kyoto has greatly 
increased during the past year. The 
first Sunday of this month there were 
twelve visitors from the hotels. The 
offerings for the past year show one 
result of this increase of visitors, nearly 
five hundred and sixty yea having been 
received. Of this money seventy-five yen 
was given to the famine sufferers in 
Sendai and vicinity ; about one hundred 
yen to Sunday Schools, Orphanages, ote. : 
and four hundred yen to the Y. M. C. A. 
toward the purchase of their building 
lot in this dty. 



In the article on the Bwkwa (the 
Osaka Girls* School) wo note, with 
surprise, that "for the first time the 
husl^nds of the alumnae '*" were invited 
to attend a welcome and farewell meet- 
ing for teachers. We sincerely hope that 
hereafter they will be invited whenever 
possible and made to feel that, thro 
their wives, they should have a parti- 
cular interest in the school and are wel- 
comed there. Nothing could be of 
greater advantage to the school. 
*i* n> 1* 'P 

The fourth volume of " The Christian 
Movement in Japan" is made an ex- 
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The Doshisha Theological 
Department. 

This department closed in June last 
with over twenty members. Of these, 
eighteen went out into summer evangel- 
istic work for about three months 
Three of these men worked in Kyoto 
two in Osaka, two in the Sendai field 
and the others were scattered from* 
Shikoku to Niigata. Much earnest work 
was done in these places and the men 
gained valuable experience which will be 
a help to them in their further study and 
in their future work. 

The Department has opened this fall 
with an entering class of over twenty, 
most of whom are graduates of Middle 
Schools, making an enrollment of about 
forty-five theological students. This is a 
larger number than the school has had 
for twelve or fifteen years, and is the 
result of a quickened spiritual interest in 
the churches generally. 

Dr. S. L. Gulick is expected back 



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15 



from his two years of study in America 
and Europe, in December, and his coming 
will be a great help to the school. 

At the recent yearly Conference of the 
Kumi-ai churches, in Kobe, a committee 
of five was appointed to consider, among 
other things, thfe training of pastors and 
evangelists, and we hope that this will 
result in more active interest and co- 
operation on the part of the Kumi-ai 
churches with the Theological Depart^ 
nisnt of Doshisha. The remarkable sun- 
rij»o prayer meetings of the pastors and 
delegates of the Conferenco held on the 
mountain, at the last one of which one 
hundred and twenty met together anrl 
there were offered a succession of half 
ramute or one minute prayers which were 
nearly all petitions for spiritual j)Ower 
and that the Holy Spirit would use them 
in the work, are another proof of the 
same quickening presence of the Spirit 
which we hope will be felt more and more 
in the Theological Dei^artment and in 
the churches generally. 

J. D. Davis. 



The Baikwa. 



The Baikwa is making history very 
fest these days. Our long waited-for 
and much expected "new lady," Miss 
£Iizabd;h Ward, came to us at the 
opening of the fall term. Her hours 
for the study of the Japanese language 
have been arranged with two teachers 
and her mornings are entirely devoted to 
that work. She gives to the school ten 
hours a week of English teaching. 

Through the kindness of the Woman's 
Board in Boston, Miss Learned con- 
tinues her services to the school. The 
help and moral support given by these 
two ladies are invaluable. 

The ground space, for daily gjrmnas- 
tks, which have become a necessity for 
aU girl's schools in Japan, has been 
enlarged by the removal of an adjoining 
house, and a special teacher, a graduate 
of the School of Gymnastics, has been 
engaged to teach the girls. ^j_^ ■_. _j 



A few of the pupils have caught the 
" Tokyo fever " and gone there to study 
but others have come in so that the 
numl>ors remain about the same as last 
year, — something more than two hun- 
dred. 

Five of our alumnae have gone to the 
United States during the recent months 
and one, Miss Kamahara, lias just return- 
ed* to Kobe Collie. 

One of our earliest graduates, who 
Xvas one of the two women on our Board 
of Trustees, died very suddenly at her 
summer home about the middle of Octo- 
ber. She was a happy mother and an 
influential woman among a large circle 
of friends of the school and church. 

Our much respected and well-loved 
treasurer and td^her, Mr. Ninomiya, 
and his wife left at the end of October. 
We could ill spare them but as they are 
going into other Christian work our 
sorrow is lessened, knowing well that 
they will continue to bo CTm< people. 
The ministry and the Kobe Bible School 
will be richer for their *work and help. 
Mr. Ninomiya goes to the DOshisha 
Theological School in Kyoto for further 
study in preparation for the ministry 
and his wife returns to assist Miss 
Barrows. 

Miss Colby recently gave a reception 
to Miss Learned and Miss Ward, unitintr 
it with a farewell meeting to Mr. and 
Mrs. Ninomiya and Miss Case. The 
invited guests consisted of the Board of 
Trustees of the School, the Osaka alum- 
nae, and a few special friends, including 
Mr. and Mrs. Allchin who charmed us 
with their music, as did also Miss 
Learned and Miss Ward. For the first 
time the husbands of the alumnae were 
invited to meet with us and it proved a 
verv pleasing addition. 

Quite a unique feature of the entertain- 
ment was the collection of old photographs 
of former missionaries of the Station, 
earlier teachers in the school, and many 
absent members of the alumnae placed 
on the walls around the two rooms. 
Many of the photographs were taken 
twenty-five years ago or more and proved 



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MISSION NEWS. 



a very happy reminder of " the old 
days." 

The two Christian Endeavor Societies 
are flourishino:. The younger one, start- 
ed and trained in the Life of Christ by 
Miss Daniels and, since her departure, 
continued by Miss Colby, lias l)een 
turned over to Miss Wanl and become 
directly tributary to the Senior Society 
of which Miss Colby has l)ecome the 
president. 

Two of our hardest girls, from a 
Christian point of view, have join(^d the 
Society this falL Tlieir families have 
hated Christianity while alIowin;r theii- 
daughters to receive tlie lx)iit»fits of it but 
now these two girls have joined the 
Society and quite a numlxir of otlieis 
with them, which gives us cause for 
sincere rejoicing. 

Plans for the new building are being 
pushed to completion and may l>e swn, 
by, any one interested, on application to 
the school or any of its officers. 

L. E. Cask. 



Kobe College. 

Preparations for building have spoiled 
for the present the l)oauty of the orna- 
mental grounds of Kol)o College, and 
many expressions of regret are heard 
from members and fi i(»nds of the institu- 
tion. To some of us t]u) thought that 
much of the beauty of tlio la\Mi was duo 
to Miss Dudley's taste is not the least 
cause for regret. But the new arrange- 
ment of buildings and grounds, when ona^ . 
completed, will be an imjirovement on 
the old. 

The new academy buildinir on the 
leased land is noiirly completed, and we 
hope to move by the middk^ of Novem- 
ber. The meml>ors of the BuiMingr 
Committee may wt^ll Ix^ proud of tlie 
commodious and convenient i-esult of 
their labors. Tlie Colleire Literary 
Society is already ])lanniiig a farewell 
meeting for the old Recitation Hall, 
which will sof)n l)e jnilled down, that 



some of its materials may be utilized in 
the new Cha]Xil building. A substantial 
wall, Ix^twwn the College grounds and 
those of Mr. Matsukata on the east, adds 
much to the appearance of the place, 

"NVe are glad to welcome back Miss 
Kamaham, who returns, after two years 
of study at Mills College, Avith undirai- 
nislunl loyalty to Kobe, and with in- 
crease! value as a teacher from lior 
experi(»noc abroad. Miss Mase, who 
was graduated fi-om our college course 
four years aL^o ami has since been teach- 
ing in tlie Okayama Koto Jo Gakko, 
has succ(HHlcd her at Mills College. 

Miss Chandler has completed seven 
years of valuable work in the College. 
She came for five years, but, as it would 
have b(M.»n lianl to sjmre her at the end 
of that time, she consented to stay 
louircT. She has devoted herself most 
faithfully to her work, having rarely 
missed a day from the classroom. Her 
jxirsistenoe.in keeping at the language, 
though with full school work she hai\ 
little time to give to it, has been a gCKxl 
example to some of the rest of us. Sht 
found time for jx^rsonal work with hei 
pupils and for calling at the homes of 
those who lived m Kolje. Her Sunday 
morning Bible class of young men, at the 
Tamon Church, and her Simday after- 
noon work for the Chinese, — probably the 
only Christian work done for the hun- 
dreds of (/hinesti living in Kolxi, — made 
Sunday a busy day for her and showe<l 
that. her inten'sts were broader than the 
scliool n)utine. 

Miss Chandler's place in the school 
has been ttiken by Miss Anna Pettee, 
and it is a great pleasure to welcome 
back anotlier of tlie ** mission children." 

Just now we art^ planning to cele])rate 
the fact that Mr. Yamanouchi has com- 
j)l(te(l his twenty fifth year of service 
as teacher of Jaj)aues<3 ]x»innanship and 
Chinese literature in the school. The 
unique on^asion seems to call for a half 
holiday. 

Tlie Okayama Orphan Asylum Band, 
a.s la.««t year, has recently given us a 
sjx'eial concrt, with a gain of fift'»en yen 



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17 



to the Asylum and a good deal of ple^ 
sure to those who looked and listened. 

The meetings of Sokwai, so far as we 
were able to attend them, were a real 
inspiration to students as well as teach- 
ers, and there is a noticeable increase of 
earnestness among them as a result. 

Susan A. Searle. 



The 



Glory Kindergarten 
Training School. 



and 



"Ho that believeth shall not make 
haste." 

The present condition of the Kinder- 
garten teaches that quieting lesson. We 
are learning that it is good to work 
steadily at appointed tasks without 
anxiety. 

We needed a larger appropriation, — 
and it has come. 

We needed more teaehei-s, — and we 
have them. 

We needed a permanent home for the 
foreign teachers, — and we have it. 

We needed more students in the 
traming class, to supply the large de- 
mand, — and we have them. 

All this seemed so impossible, — but 
it has come (!) and so we ai-e expecting to 
have the still pressing needs supplied in 
due time. 

Yes, — we are expecting a renovated 
Kmdergarten giving sunKght" to the 
children, a respectable appearance for 
visitors, and a second story supplying 
rooms for training school work. 

AVe are expecting money to buy a plot 
of land to make room for a home for the 
studente on the same lot with that for 
the foreign teacher. 

We are expecting to repair the present 
home for the foreign teacher and to build 
a respectable fence around the lot. 

And we are expecting money to publish 
MX text-books, — five of them are now 
b^ing copied by hand, for each student 
of the training class. 

Yes, " the unexpected has happened," 



and we have all the students in the 
training school that we can accommodate, 
with applications enough for next April 
to make "a waiting list" necessary! 
Never have we had so large a pro- 
portion of independent students, while 
the incoming class for next April pro- 
mises to be largely self-supporting. 

We have a very good corps of teachers 
to carry on the work, — ^in psychology, 
Bible, Mother Play, History (rf Educa- 
tion, Programs, Stories and Grames, 
Kindergarten Theory and Practice, 
Music, Drawing, Gymnastics, and Flower 
Arrangement. 

There is a large demand for experi- 
enctd, efficient Kindei^arteners, and we 
are enlarging and expanding our curri- 
culum to meet the demand. 

The Kindei^arten is not left behind in 
the new prosperity which has come to us, 
but our waiting list there is as long as 
ever, — above a hundred names, — ^and 
the daily work with the children has 
never been more beautiful. 

Outside appreciation of the value of 
work for children is growing rapidly, so 
let us take heart and move steadily 
forward, — we on the fi(Jd by steady, 
faithful work and planning, — ^you at 
home, by your gifts and prayers. 

A. L. Howe. 



The SokwaL 



By general consent, the 22nd An- 
nual Meeting of the Kumi-ni churches, 
held at Kol^e' Church, Oct. 13-16, touch- 
ed the high water mark. The large 
attendance of ninety-nine delegates and 
thirty corresponding members, made a 
splendid assembly to look upon, and the 
assembly found in the renovated and 
beautified church building a siJendid 
place for its meeting. 

The routine of organization and getting 
things starteil on Saturday morning and 
afternoon, was followed by an evening 
session full of enthusiasm over the en- 
couraging reports of the progress of 



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the work during the year. And when 
the call was made for special funds to 
continue the evangelistic campaign (shQ- 
cha dendo) next year, over 1,420 yen 
was pledged on the spot. This was later 
increased to nearly two thousand. 

The Sabbath morning service was 
impressive. The large church was filled 
witih a waiting congregation that was 
good to look upon, and to be a part of. 
The music, fimiished by the Kobe College 
Choir and the Apollo Club, was excellent, 
but one could not help thinking that 
much was lost by not allowing mich a 
congregation to voice its dec]) feelings by 
at least one good song together. There 
>vas no congregational singing ! 

The preacher, Mr. Abe of Okayama, 
clothed the dry l)on?s of EzekiePs vision 
with much of flesh and blood and life, 
and made an impassioned appeal for self- 
<lenying, agonizing effort to save the 
souls of the people. 

The Lord's Supper was administered 
by Mr. Sugita and Dr. Davis. 

On Simday afternoon Mr. Shimada 
and Mr. P^bina attracted an audience 
that filled the large church to overflow- 
ing before the time advertised for the 
sorvice to begin, and at two o'clock the 
gates before the church were closed, and 
many turned away. 

Among the interesting tilings of Mon- 
day were the ordination service, at 
Tamon Church, of Mr. Yamamoto of 
Nagasaki, and the meeting for women, 
at Kobe Church, in the afternoon, 
attended by about six hiuidred, and ad- 
dressed by Mr. Hon and Mr. Miya- 
gawa. At the close of this meeting a 
i-esolution was adopted which rcsultiHl 
in the formation of a Woman's Mis- 
sionary Society. The thing was done 
very quietly, but knowing, as we do, 
what a Woman's Boai-d means in the 
help given to evangelistic work, it may 
be that that will be the chief act for 
which this Twenty Second Sokwai will 
be distinguished in Japani^se Church 
History. 

The social gatliering on Monday even- 
ing, in the spacious hall of the Shinko 



Glub, was greatly enjoyed by the several 
hundred who sat down to a lunch-box 
supper, and by the other hundreds who 
came in later to feast on the very in- 
teresting program of music and drama 
which had been generously provided, 
and for which the services of some of 
the best talent in Japan had been 
secured. 

The Sokwai proper, which closed on 
Tuesday noon, was followed by a Work- 
ers' Meeting held for one day in a large 
summer hotel by the seashore at Maiko. 
Here the fi-ock-coat was exchanged for 
the kimonOy and the formality of the 
public sessions was forgotten in the free- 
and-easy meeting together here for sea- 
bathing, for general intercourse^, for 
heart to heart conversations, for friendly 
discussion of helpftil topics new and old, 
and for united pmyer and consecration 
to no])Ier effbits during the coming year. 

The motto chosen for the Sokwai and 
hung conspicuously upon the wall of the 
assembly room was, " Pray without 
ceasing." And this spirit of prayer 
was the atmosphere of all the meetings, 
from the first sunrise prayer-meeting on 
the hills above the city, to the last 
assembly on the sea level at Maiko. 

An attendance at this Sokwai could 
not fail to impress one with the thought 
that the Kuraiai Church has a fine lot 
of hard-headed, soft-hearted, high-spirit- 
ed, broad-gage workers, from the digni- 
fied Chairman Harada to the brother 
who came from the most distant coimtry 
station. 

The undertone of the meetings wa<«, 
moreover, eminently spiritual. The.se 
workers have the common conviction 
that the Church, to Ix? alive, must be 
evangelical, — must bo in the world, like 
her Master, ** to seek and to save the 
lost." 

A most gratifying sign of the times is 
the way in which the idea of Christian 
giving is taking ]X)ssession of both clergy 
and laymen. With nearly fiftc^on hundred 
yen raised at one session for special evange- 
listic work next year : with special aid 
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help, for a year, some weak churches 
which the Miasionary Society is not yet 
able to assist ; with the splendid ofter, 
by several laymen, of one tliousand yen for 
opening at Tokyo next sprhig a special 
Workers' Meeting for the help and 
training and culture of the men in the 
field, — such things show that the claims 
of the Gospel arc touching both the heart 
and the pocket. When that happens 
the success of the Church's work is 
assured. 

In lyast years the great gojil of "Jn- 
dependenco" may have obscured, at 
times, the igreater goal of spirituality. 
But it was evident at tliis meeting that 
the near ^approach of the realization of 
that independence idea is having the 
sobering effect which responsibility al- 
ways brings. And the manifest hiuiger 
and thirst for spiritual results showed 
that the grcater^^goal has come now ftilly 
into view. 

H. B. Newell. 



A Kyoto Anniversary. 

Tlic Heian Church in Kyoto has just 
celebrated its tliirtieth annivei-sary by 
making exteasive repaii'S to the amount 
of two thousand two hundred yen, and 
by enlarging its house to* a seating 
opacity of five hundred, so that it Is 
not only the oldest Church Ixxly but has 
the largest Church building in tlie city. 

On the morning of Oct. 19th the 
Bitktcai (JxK*a\ Conference) met in the 
Church and after reports and earnest 
conference raised one hundred yen for 
(special evangelistic work in tliis region. 

The afternoon of the same day was 
jriven to the Thirtieth Anniversary 
Exercises in which Messrs. Tsunajima, 
Hori, Davis andiothei's had part. Rev. 
Mr. Hori of Maebashi was one of the 
eight charter][]^members. He related 
many of the early experiences through 
wliich the Church passed, of its organiza- 
tion in Mr. Doane's parlor, of the ftnir 
of the people in the neighlx)urhood to 



rent buildings or to sell land to CTirist- 
ians, and gave personal reminiscences 
of early memlxjrs. 

The Church has a present membership 
of two hundred and sixty-three ; a total 
during the thirty years of nine hundred 
and twelve. One evidence of the way it 
is now regarded in the neighbourhood was 
shown by the faet that on the Anniversar}' 
day the houses on each side of the street 
in the block on which the Church stands 
displayed big red lanterns marked with 
characters of congratulation. 

In the evening at the invitation of the 
Church about seventy of the pastors, 
evangehsts and leading Christians of the 
Kyoto District sat down to dinner 
together in one of the Club Houses near 
by, and later the Church was again well 
filled for the evening service. 

E. E. Caky. 



Sapporo Doings. 



The most important recent event in 
connection with Happoro Station is its 
decision to divide forces and locate 
tlie Bartlett family twenty miles away 
in the bustling city of Otaru. This 
decision was reached after much thought, 
prayer, and consultation. Sucli a divi- 
sion of forces was against the personal 
inclination of all concerned but the 
exigencies of the work seemed, to eacli 
member of the Station, to make the 
division wise. 

A site has lj(»en chosen and land 
purchased for the new home. Only a 
fjw days after a written contract for 
s<3Uing the land had been signed a change 
in the location of the doc^ks foi* shipping 
coal, and new plans for the jMjrfecting of 
tlie har1x)r, Ciuiswl a marked ap])re;na- 
tion in the value of the large lot, — about 
tSf),000 sq. ft. Tlie mission may not 
care so nmch for the gain in dollai-s and 
cents but if the land had not l>een secur- 
ed when it was the pri(?e woidd probably 
have btien at least double or the site 
might not have been purchasable at all. 



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A regular western boom is on, a real 
severe attack of land fever. 

A plan for daily street preaching in 
Otaru during the month of August was 
made by two Japanese and two Amer- 
ican ministers. With the exception of 
a few days when it was necessary to 
rest the work for various reasons, the 
plan was carried out with success. The 
listening was always respectful and at- 
tentive and there was no wilful disturb- 
ance of the speaking nor anything like 
opposition. At the close of the campaign 
the promoters are all enthusiatsic and Mr. 
Takahashi says he feels a new zest in the 

E reaching of the Gospel, his pulpit is as 
road as the limits of the city. Thus 
has Mr. Bartlett's influence begun to be 
felt in Otaru long before he takes up his 
residence there, for he, more than any 
other, inspired this new enterprise. 

A promise has been secured from Mrs. 
Foulk to come to Otaru and take up the 
work for women. 

We especially enjoyed a visit from 
Miss Talcott during the early days of 
September. As usual she turned her 
hand and heart aptly to the thing before 
her that needed doing. 

For the three weeks Industrial Ex- 
position in Sapporo, beginning September 
tenth, the Japanese and Foreign minis- 
ters, connected with the six Protestant 
Churches, hold daily preaching services 
in a tent, pitched for the purpose, near 
the Exposition grounds. The work was 
very successful 

G. M. Rowland. 



Maebashi Notes. 

First to be noted is the safe return of 
Miss Griswold who shared the H. 
8. Dakota with the one hundred and 
fifty millionaires from T^os Angolea. 
Unfortunately she had an exceedingly 
small share in the shape of a leaky, 
stuffy, second-class cabin on a first-class 
ticket, but still landed in Yokohama 
full of goo{l nature and eagerness for 
another term of ser\'ice. Already there 



have been several calls upon her for 
addresses, — Tlieological, Experiential, 
and Greographical. 

Mr. EUis of the Philadelphm Free 
Press, paid us a flying visit in September. 
During his twenty-six hour's stay he 
spoke four times, three times in different 
schools and once to a crowded house at the 
Church. His addresses, and keen interest 
in what was going on, were highly appre- 
ciated. 

From October first to seventh inclusive, 
a series of special services were conducted 
at the Takasaki church, Mr. Kozaki 
being in charge. The evenings were 
devoted to preaching — two speakers each 
time — and the days were spent in calling. 
Mr. Ebina w^as present one day, doing 
good by the two addresses he gave. 
Two results were manifest, — (1) a deci- 
sion to study Christianity by thirty-four 
people, and (2) a general warming up 
of the church members. The pastor and 
one deacon had to shoulder the responsi- 
bility for the movement but the other 
church merabera gradually fell into Kne 
and at the final thanksgiving mcctint? 
there were many confessions of indif- 
ference and promises to reform. Needless 
to say, pastor Matsuraoto is greatly 
encourageii. 

In Maebashi we are getting ready tor 
a big forward movement to begin on N(v 
vember fii#t and last twelve days. Pastor 
Tsunashima is to take charge and Messrs. 
Ebina, Kozaki, and others are to lend a 
hand. Preparatory to this movement the 
church here has been holding special 
prayer meetings and preaching services, 
in all of which there lias been much 
mtercst. In the outstations of Agatsuma, 
Fujioka, and Sano, there have also 
been special efforts made and before the 
year closes we hope to see some defimte 
results. 

The annual mooting of the Joshu 
Christians, held in Toraioka on September 
seventeenth, was a decided success, about 
one hundred being present. The spirit of 
the meeting was all in the direction of 
advance along spiritual lines, there being 
much Avarm discussion, by prominent lay- 



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21 



men, of ways and means. Rev. Hasliino, 
of the Presbyterian Church, Tokyo, 
was down for the annual adclrcss, and 
being himself a- Joshu boy, he enlivened 
us with reminiscences, congratulations 
anfl happy propliesyings. Coitainly no 
note of discouragraent was lieanl but 
rather the notes of rejoicing and triumph. 
I may add, in closing, that on October 
second, at the Fall District Association, 
Mr. Matsumoto of the Takasaki Church 
was ordained, so that now all our iiya 
independent church(^ are under tlui care 
of pastors duly authorised to take full 
charge of all forms of work. 

U. Pedley. 



Fall Openings in Okayama Ken. 



I write this deliberately in spite of the 
fact that we were loth to ^ay gcxxl \>y 
to the Bennetts and have misswl them 
teiTibly since they moved to Tottori last 
month. More serious yet Ls the con- 
sideration that some of the woik they 
ami Miss Wainwright were carrying has 
perforce been dropped, we are so short- 
handed this fall. Okayama* also greatly 
misses Prof and Mi-s. Gauntlott who 
have moved to Kanazawa. We miss 
also our broad-minded governor and his 
expectionally efficient wife. Two churches 
are pastorless, one having become so the 
past summer. 

The Orphanage with its 1,200 child- 
ren has no chapel except the school yanl, 
and having, used up the larg(i extra gifts 
received in the spring, is facdng debt, or 
at least a desiderate financial situation. 
There has been a sad case of immorality 
and deception among the local <^hurch 
members ; opposition taking the form of 
social ostracism has aristiu against the 
Christians in one or two 1)1iuxjs ; the 
inability of the Woman's lioard to pro- 
vide at once the funds for purchasing the 
imperatively need lot adjoining the 
widely beneficial sandal settlement plant 
at Hanabatake, causes Miss Adams and 



all of us much anxiety ; and there are 
other serious problems on hand tliat tax 
us severely. 

Yet in spite of these more or less 
distressing circumstances, the work is 
moving on si»lendidly and there are 
abundant causes for gratitude and cheer- 
fulness. The baptism of forty-one jxirsons, 
on one Sunday during the past summer in 
connection with a single country church, 
is unprocedenttnl in this whole region. 
The recti! t met tings at Tsuyama residted 
in a deeiKir consecration on the part 
of pastor Abe of Okayama, the leader of 
the movemtait, and other workers, that 
can be calltnl, without, cant, nothing less 
than l*entecostal. I have never witness- 
ed a higher, healthier uplift, relatively 
sjK^aking. No wonder there are al- 
it^ady two hunditKl inquirers in thirty 
dificrent houses at Tsuyama and the 
fire is spreading throughout the pre- 
fecture. 

Okayama city, especially the Orphan- 
age, outtiid itself in the enthusiastic 
re<3eption accorded Muss Anna H. Pettee 
on her rtsturn here after nearly ten years 
absence abroad. » 

A Mr. and Mrs Chang, Chinese 
Presbyterian Christians from Shanghai, 
have Fixnit a fortnight or more in the 
Orphanage, stutl^dng its methotis of 
operation in order that they may open 
and conduct a similar institution in their 
own country. 

We find Prof antl Mrs. Colbum, 
formerly of Osaka, a very pleasant and 
helpful addition to our exctKithngly limit- 
ed foixngn community in Okayama. He 
succtKH^ Prof Gauntlett as instructor 
of English at the Sixth Higher (govern- 
ment) Stthcx)! in this city. 

The intlications an* that our new 
governor and his wife, formerly of Tottori 
and well known by some memlx^rs of our 
mission, will prove themselves to l)e 
broad-minded in their sympathies and 
genuinely dt»sirous of helj)ing forward all 
worthy proj(»(;ts for the uplift of the city 
and tht) prefeetiu'e. 

In a word then, the fall work 0]x»ns 
auspiciously and the small btmd of 



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trained workers, the. overtaxed, is full 
of cheer and confidence. 

J. H. Pettee. 



Tsuyama Progress. 

The Autumn has opened most auspi- 
ciously for the woik in Tsuyama. 

In the first place, in September the 
^uirch became financially independent. 
It was one of those passed over to tho 
Home Missionary Society at the l)o- 
giiUiinp: of the year and now, after this 
short int3rval, it has gone on to Ik; 
independciit of Japanese help also. The 
surprising awl most encouraging thing 
about it is that the movement was started 
Avithout the knowledge of the most in- 
fluential memlxir and largest giver. It 
succeeded by a careful canvas of the 
membership, securing an advance m the 
contributions of those already giving, 
and, in some cases, contributions from 
new givers. This insures a true demo- 
cratic independence and not, as lias l)een 
the case in some places, dependence upon 
one or two or a small group of members. 
There have been additions to the 
church at every communion service for 
some timo. In July there were five 
baptisms, in Septemlxir six, and in 
October five. These additions bring the 
present membership to one hundred and 
inve while the average attendance at 
Sunday School is one hundred and 
seventy. 

The Prefectural Evangelistic Associa- 
tion, organised at Okayaraa in the 
Spring, selected Tsuyama for its opening 
campaign this Fall. During the first 
week a meeting was held every forenoon 
for the workers themselves, the average 
attendance being fifte<ai. The afternoons 
were spent in visiting the homc-s ©f 
inquirers for Hible teaching. In the 
evening preacliing services were held 
in different parts of the city, thirteen 
districts thus having the Gospel brought 
homo to them. The worker's meetings 
were attended with a special blessing 
upon those who were present and new 
wns^x'ration on their part to the work. 



This first week was followed by ton 
days devoted entirely to personal work 
in the city and evenmg preaching services 
in three adjacent villages. Seven of the 
workers remained for this purpose and 
in some thirty-five homes of the dty 
Christian instruction was regularly given, 
in many cases members of other families 
in the vicinity coming in. As a result 
of this campaign there are, including 
students in the Middle School and thc^ 
GirFs High School, aliput one hundrcwl 
and fifty uiquirers. This lays an extra 
but blessed burden ujwn the few residejit 
workers to follow up all these cases vnth 
the proper care. 

Mr. White is ituieratuig through the 
province every week, visiting Tsuyama, 
Kat<?innoda, Kurashiki. and Ushigawa. 
On an average, two da\^ in the week 
are sjwnt in Okayama where he has a 
chance at his library and Bible classes 
for students. The chapel work in Tsu- 
yama, which had to be given up at the 
beginning of the year, has been started 
again. For eight yeare the chapel has 
been in the same general neighborhood, 
so it seem(Kl desirable to find a new- 
site giving a new district an opportunity 
to hear about Christianity. Fortunately 
a very suitable place has Ijeen secured 
still further east and the work has started 
there in a most encouraging way. Truly 
the harvest is great and waiting but the 
laborers are few. 

S. S. White. 



Hyuga Items. 



There Is nothing startling to tell as 
the new year opens after the comparative 
inactivity of the simimer, but there ai-o 
signs of eneounigement. Spiritually 
there have Ikm^u somt? successes, though 
no general movement such as we have 
prayed for. 

Miyakonojo, still i^istorless, has never- 
theless boon greatly quickened by the 
persistent efforts of our new Bible wo- 
man during the summ<?r and fall. As a 



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23 



vfeibJe resnlt some six or eight Middle 
School students and some others have 
expressed their purpose to join the 
Christian ranks, while the whole line 
of battle has been strengthenei^l. Our 
Iwpe now is that as a ro^sult of Mr. 
Clark's visit to the Sokwai, the right 
man for the position of pastor there may 
at las^ be in sight 

Hososhima, now ours only by right of 
the love that tended and nourished her 
through a long childhood till she wiw 
ready for iidoption into the new family 
relationship, has been blessed duruig tlui 
new yearold pastorate of li San. He 
is a teacher rather than a preacher. 
He believes in systematic, jxTsistexit 
Bible instruction, in groups or with 
individuals, as the prime meaas of gract», 
and the interest aroused in the Bible, 
and consequently in the Church, have 
justified his methods. 

Hososhima Church is alive — very 
much alive — so much so that they sur- 
prised us ft few weeks ago by an- 
noundng that the long-talkecl of dream of 
a Church building had suddenly become 
icalizod — that the money needed ha<l 
been solicited and subscribed, every 
dollar of it, without asking help from 
any of us. Their only retjuest is that 
now the Mission lend their assistance 
and help them to raise an additional two 
hnndred yen with which they propose to 
build a parsonage on the lot that they 
have already secured for the Church. 
This is enterprise and we shall be glad 
to help it along. 

The zeal for Church-building seems to 
have become contagious, for the fever has 
laid hold of another place near by where 
formerly there has not been so much as 
an organized kogisJio. But now the 
little band of Christians have already 
rai8<j<l a considerable sum toward a 
Church-building and ara applying to us 
for assistance. 

These are encouraging notes and there 
are others, which, though less evilcnt, 
are yet just as real. 

In Miyazaki itself we huv^^ not leoii 
idle. Entitled to a vacation as much a3 



anyone could bo, Mr. Clark and Miss 
Ciulick yf't pix^forred to stay by their 
ix)sts in ppite of the inttnise heat of the 
summer and keep things going. Mrs. 
0\(b and 1 have recently started a new 
children's UKH^ting which piomises well, 
while the way is ojx^ning u]> for the 
establisliment of Sunday Schools in the 
vichiity. Other embryonic enteii)rLst^ 
may i>:^ worthy of niention at some 
future time. 

Hut, with all that we liave, we want 
more. There is too much of spiritual 
deadness in the air and ours is the 
universal necnl — a new spiritual impulse 
that will f(Ui the smouldering embers 
into life again. 

C. B. Olds. 



Matsuyama Matters. 

With my o>vn family started off on 
furlough, and the Warren family in 
Kolx% this Station was held down durmg 
the summer by Miss Judson and Miss 
Parmelee, till things got to boiling for 
the former, when she sought the moun- 
tains of Arima where the lx)iliug springs 
ai-e cold. 

Tiie departure of one family took 
away all the children of the Station; 
but the Warrens have risen to the 
occasion and will bring back a fine boy 
to make music for us. Wo await with 
joy the coming of young Dana. 

Hawaiian happenings are not directly 
a part of Matsuyama matters, and yet 
they concerned some of us during the 
summer. For having accompanied my 
family that far on their way home, I 
was interested, naturally, in the Japanese 
churches there, and had mi op[)ortunity 
to see-something of their condition, during 
the month that we spent in Honolulu ; 
and not only to see, but also it was my 
privilege to take a little part in the work 
of the koffMo and the two indei)eudent 
Kumiai cliiirches, the Methodist church, 
anl the Y.M.C.A. The kogi^ho. under 
t\\Kt (iiroction of Dr. Scudder as a pait of 



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the Hawaiian lk)ard work, has Mr. 
Kajiro for evangelist; while the two 
churches are excellently nmnned by 
pastors Okumum and Yamatruehi. It 
Avas interestiusf to see the prcxsptmty of 
these Jai>anese churches on foreiqii soil. 

8inoe returning to Matsuyama on 
Sept. 1st, I have s[X)nt a f?oo(l share of 
the time, up to the present, in the country 
districts, first visiting Uwajiina and 
workuig for several days with Pastor 
Higashi in that vicinity. This church 
has had twelve additions sinct^ Jan., and 
ought soon to take its place in tluj body 
of Kumiai churches, — as we Iioikj that 
it may. A visit to the village of Ofuji, 
ten miles in the country, revealed an 
interesthig })iece of work. Here a young 
man, now lumd of a wealthy family, 
having l)ecome a Christian while a stu- 
dent at the Doshisha, on his return home 
about seven years ago, Ix'giui active? 
Christian work by opening a Sunday 
School for the childrfiu of tlui vilhige. 
This he ha.s continued thro these yc^ars, 
and has lately added a Y.M.C.A., and a 
Temj)erance So<;it^ty. It is a genuine 
pleasuix) to run across thes«^ Doshisha 
men in unlooked-for pla(;es, k(H»ping 
alive and active their Cliristian fait 1 1. 

A Sunday at Gunchu followed, wheix) 
Mr. and Mrs. AgJita are gathering in 
the fruit of previous lal)ors, and wluinr I 
had the ple;u*«ure of rec\!iving eight adults 
into fellowship. 

Then ctime four delightful days at 
Imaharu, the Philadelphia of our Shi- 
koku churches, where, with jmstor Tsu- 
yumu, I engaged in a minor camjwiign 
designed to pre^mre the church for the 
great evangelistic campaign to come a 
month later, after the SokwaL How- 
ever much or little one may ])o a])le to 
give to this Church, he cannot fail to 
receive much thro a visit to this 
warm-hearted Clu'istian community. 

Ijctavhig Imaharu and Ilnshihama 
(a niaghlx)ring town with a small Chureli 
an<l a larg(5 liuilding), the island of Shi- 
saka was next visited, where are tlu^ 
great smelting works of the Sumitomo 
** Besshi CopjxT Mines." Here we hail an 



afternoon meeting for children, and an 
evening preaching ser\'ice for adults, 
among whom several eager seekers ap- 
ptiared. This little island houses about 
4,500 people, and is a little kingdom in 
itself. Among the officers and employees 
ar*} a number of Christians, and the 
whole attitude of the Company towaitl 
our work is such tliat wo. are always 
welcomed both h(?re and at Niihama, Um 
miles away, on the coa^t, where are the 
main offices, the foundry', the receiving 
sheds for the ore brought down by 
rail from the mountains, the harbor, 
and the flcict which is always busy ship- 
ping the ore across to the island Nii- 
hama has, prolmbly, one of the best 
aj)pointed prunary and grammar schools 
in the country ; and it would be hard to 
find iuiywhere a Ix^tter a'^sembly hall 
tlum is here. As the school is private, 
Ixjlonging to the Company, this hall 
is always generously opcuKxl for our 
religious meetings; and a fine, intelli- 
gent audiences is always found here. 

Parting with Mr. Tsuyumu here, I 
went along the coast to Mr. Okaraoto's 
field, and with him held me(*tings at 
Saijo and Komatsu, and in the village 
of Nagano. The most encouraging part 
of the work here is the Sunday Schools 
which arti most flourishing under Mi-s. 
Okamoto's skilful direction. 

K(;tunung home over-land from here, 
I called, on the way, uj)on an old doctor, 
now a member of the Imaharu Church, 
but formerly a Catholic Christian near 
Nagasaki, who, iis a boy, remembers the 
jx'rse(aitioiLs and the tmmpling upon the 
C'iT)ss which the Government officiiils 
att<'mi)tiHl to enforce. He related how 
tluit, wht-n the officials visited his place 
one? day, his employer, a carpenter, who 
was not himself a Christian, hid him 
away hi a g:irnt, and thus heljxid him to 
eseajKi jx is'X'ution. It was hke reading 
a e]iaj)ter of ancient histoiy to meet and 
talk with this distuiguishcHl looking, white- 
Ix'arded oM man. 

Aftta* att rnding the insj)iring Sokwai 
at Kobe, I a(»eomp:inie(i Pastor Suna- 
gawa, of the Koclii Church, to his field, 



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idiere I spent several days of splondirl 
fellowship, and roooived a \varra soiitli- 
em welcome to this imrt of the field, 
which was entirely new to nie. The 
Church looks prosperous m its fine, now 
building, and it certainly was greatly 
strengthened by last year's evangtjlistic 
campaign, as a result of which fifty new 
members were addtxL The six meetings 
I had the privilege of addn^ssing here 
were all well attended by nice audi- 
ences of sturdy looking people. 

The return journey overland was a 
t^'o days* revelation of the truly moun- 
tainous character of this island which I 
had hitherto known only on its coastline. 
Yet these rough mountain s1ojk*s s(*eme<i 
to be fairly well populated, and more or 
k-ss under cultivation ; only, in j)laoe of 
the rice fiekls one is so accustomcnl to 
see, here com fields abounded, — if those 
slopes can \ye called " fields " that are 
tipped up at an angle of anywhere from 
forty-five to sixty degrees ! Thoy surely 
must use ladders in garnering the crojxs ! 
During the fifty-eight days since my 
return home I have boon in the field 
just one half the time, have travelknl 
about nine hundred and fifty mil(»s, 
and given thirty-three sermons and ad- 
dresses in fift;een diflereut places. Every- 
where the churches, like the ci'Oj)s this 
year, look pnxsperous ; and the workers, 
like the farmers, seem hapi)y and 
enthusiastic. The fields seem ripe for 
harvesting, and the laborers are already 
beginning to receive the promised wages 
of joy. 

As for this city work, the Matsuyama 
Cliurch is stiU without a pastor, but has 
hopes of making suitable arrang(»m(mts 
soon. For the present, both tlu's Church 
and the Komachi Church at the other 
end of the city, depend hirgt^ly uiK)n 
missionary assistance in the s(»r\'ices, as 
well as in the Sunday School ; for Mi>s 
Judson is acting as SujKirintcndent at 
the former, and Miss Parm(ihx) at the 
latter. 

The Factory Girls' HouKi is ex- 
periencing a faUing off in j)atioij:ir'), 
consequent on the sickness that \va.< 



prevalent among the mill operatives 
during the summer, and which has made 
parents loth to send their girls there 
under prevailing conditions. "^The mill 
forcx) is thus ri'ducinl fully one third, and 
the Home shaix'S in this reduction. It 
is hojxKl that the cooler wt.^ther will 
amend matters somewhat. The Home is 
plannintc for greater things, and has 
rcHxntly ]Hirchas(M^i a piece of adjoining 
land, tliut came upon the market, con- 
taining alK)ut five hundred tntbo. 

The Girls' School and the Industrial 
School, now combined under Miss Jud- 
son's management, have opened pros- 
]x»rous]y, and are doing good work. 
The form(»r has s(jventy pupils in attend- 
ance, and the latter, with over one hun- 
dnnl enrolled, has a regular attendance of 
s(^venty. In (X)nnec*tion with the lattei 
s'^hool Miss Judnon has an interesting 
Bible ehiss of about thirty young men. 

The Central Y.M.C.A. which was 
organized last spring, has opened up its 
night school for English again, with 
alx)ut fifty in attendance. Tliree evenings 
a wcL'k are given to this, a Bible lesson 
onct^ a wwk being a j)art of the regular 
curriculum. In this work all three of 
the local denominations join. 

H. B. Nt:\VELL. 



Dr. Day's Visit to Niigata. 

Many of the memliers of our Mission 
are the special repn^sentatives on the 
foreign field of some church in the home- 
land that has wholly or in part assumed 
their supix)rt. Some have been able 
to visit these churches before coming to 
Japan or when on furlough and thus have 
l>e(K)me acquainted with those they repn^ 
SGnt. Few, however, have had the privi- 
lege of welcoming to their homes in 
Japan a del(^;>ation from AnKTica brmg- 
ing j)eTsonal messages of gnx^ting and 
tronerous tokens of loving interest from 
the lionio church. 

This privilege was recently enjoyed by 
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis when Rev. William 
Horace Day, jvistor of the First Church 



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of Jjos Angeles, with Mrs. Day, and the 
Misses Clark, daughtf^i-s of the President 
of the Board of Trustees, visited Niigata. 

Dr. and Mrs. Day had planned to 
spend a week in Echigo that they might 
visit our ou^stations and become acquaint- 
ed with the conditions in the whole Nii- 
gata field, but owing to the stranding of 
their steamer, the Manchuria, and the 
consequent delay of three wtKiks in Hono- 
lulu, they were able to be with us but 
one full day. That day Iwing Sunday, 
however, thi^y saw a good deal of the city 
work carried on by the Niigata Church 
and by the Mission. 

In a brief address at the close of the 
morning service in the church. Dr. Day 
gave greetings to the Christians off Nii- 
gata from th<? members of his church in 
Los Angeles. He assurcnl us that the 
missionaries and the Jajmueso Christians 
in Niigata, and the work they are trying 
to do, arc always remembered in prayer 
at the public services of the Los Angeles 
Church and by many individual members 
who have Ixjcome intcrsted in the work 
in this imrt of Ja]mn. 

He sj)oke also of what the First Churcli 
is trying to do for the Japani^se young 
men of Los Angeles. It supports a 
** Mission " or " Home for Japanese," in 
which there aw dormitories for the home- 
lore, a hospital ward for the sick, a read- 
ing-room, a night school, Bible classes, 
and fix^juont gosjx^l service's. By a 
happy coincidence, the Superintendent of 
this Jaiwnesft Home in Ix>s Angeles is 
Miss Alice Harwood, wlio at one time 
was (.t)nnected with the Niigata Station 
of tlie American Board Mission in JajMin. 

The First Church also supports a 
Chinese Mission in Los Angtles and as 
a result of the work done in th(\se Missions 
there are more than thirty Japanese an<I 
about the s*unc number of Chinese^ wlio 
have united with the church. In the now 
(!hurch-l)uilding recently coin])letefl, th(» 
tlaimnesj and C-hinese memlK^i's have 
])laccd a beautiful stained-glass window 
bearing a])pro])riate Scriptuni t^;xts in 
tlieir res|K'etive languages. In sjK^aking 
of this incident I>r. Day greatly pleased 



his Niigata audience by repeating in their 
own tongue the motto of the Japan^io 
window; Xa)7Jira mina kyodai narL 
(All ye are brethren). 

In the afternoon Dr. and Mrs. Day 
visited thive of our Sunday-schools in 
different parts of the city, and also at- 
tended a joint meeting of the King's 
Daughters* and Sunshine Societies. Ho 
gave a short helpful address to the girls 
from the text ** Ye are My witnesses." 
At tlieir own request both I>r. and Mrs. 
Day were made Honorary Members of 
th(ise two societies, and they kindly con- 
tributed a yen each to the Societies' 
Charity Fund. They alK) gave five yen 
for the purchasing of new books for the 
Girls' Ijending Librar}'. 

In the evening, at Furumachi Chapel, 
Dr. Day had the opportmiity of seeing, 
and sharing in, one of our street-preaching 
servi(Xis. At this meeting an audience 
of at least one hundred stood quietly 
listening for more than an hour to the 
preaching of the gospel and the singing 
of gos|X)l hymns. 

Dr. Day and his party left Niigata 
Monday morning for Kyoto where they 
were to visit Miss Denton who is a mem- 
IxT of the Fii-st Church in Ix)s Angeles. 
A fi.'w of our Christians at Nagaoka and 
Kashiwazaki were able to greet Dr. Day 
at the railway stations as he passed 
through those places. iShibata, tlio un- 
visited, was rememlx)red by all of the 
jmrty with donations for its new church- 
building, now nearing completion. 

Thesii gifts in aid of the work, and the 
pci-sonal mcissages and gift from the 
menil)ers of the First Church at Los 
Angeles, wi^re most deeply appi-eciatod 
by their representatives in the Niigata 
field. Our nilationship to that church 
will henctrfoitli seem more i*eal, while the 
visit of it-^ i)astor and his wife, and the 
luuirty interest tliey manifested in our 
work, will always be a plea«^nt memory 
and a sourct^ of inspiration and strength. 

An Evangeli stic T rip to Aiyu. 

(Tlje followhig article is of special interest 
from the fact that it is written by a Japan- 



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27 



e^e who has but recently^ relnrned from 
America where he look his B. A. at Oberlin 
and his M. A. at Harvard. It is an account 
of a trip made in company with Miss Brad- 
sbaw, who sends the article, and is printed 
a» written by the Japanese.— Ed. Mission 

NEWSb) 

Ono thing that struck me most was 
the joy of meeting old friends. Even 
mature Christians Imve woes and worries, 
and it is the privilege of a ChrLstian- 
workc^r to be confided in with their diffi- 
fiulti<^]2^^^^ Itroublos, and give admoni- 
tions and advice. Speechifying alone, 
important as it is, r.n 1 quite tiring to 
oiir baiy, is only a small portion of the 
work when we are out on an evangelistic 
trip. It is true thatithree]^of us made; 32 
speeches in 14 meetings in 12 days, and 
meet places 7 or 8 milcsi apart. This 
is no light work, but the intimate talks 
with new and old Christians chooring the 
downcast, consoling the sick, correcting 
abnormal thinkings, nipphig off t!io 
pc»sonous budsjn the garden of thought, 
fitving worldly advices and suggestions, 
wanning the*iold friendship and reviv- 
ing the old church associations, are much 
more delicate land intricate work. 

This trip is not specially different 
6om the same sort of trijxs we uscnlito 
take every spring and fall, but tender 
kind ministration is never old or obso- 
lete. Messages we give to them Is the 
old gospel truth, simply adopted to the 
new circumstances. And it is delightful 
to see how it brightens many e^irncst 
hearts. 

In our speeches we wanted to carry 
Clirisfcianity to highways and hedges aiwl 
though it was under some difficidties, 
we planiiefl to have road-side meetings 
as much as possible. To speak to a 
?=h'fcing crowd and sing hymns in a 
h If open air meetings was not so very 
ea y and pleasant till our spirits were 
tfweh'»d by tho love of the Son of God 
and till we longed to bring joy and 
hles4ng to these hearts which must bo 
quit; desolate, as ours were Ix^fore we 
liocaroe Christians. It is inspiring to 
notice some earnest faces hearing us 
attentiv(dy all through the thix»e-hour 



meeting. Man soweth and God alone 
can make it grow ! 

Christians are living lonehly, one or 
two families in this or that village, and 
they come out with wife and children to 
meet us. After the late night meeting 
they come to our hotel rooms. The 
rooms are imperfectly lit no doubt, but 
when we talk from heart to heart, and 
pray together, our hearts are aglow witli 
the joy that no mere earthly things can 
give, neither take away. They go home 
walking, often three or four miles, with 
paper lantern, and the wife with her 
babo on her back confidently asleeji — 
they go home, j)olitely tlianking us 
that wa hav(i brought new cheer to 
tlieir lonesome life, and that the meeting, 
was beneficial to their thinkings. Thougli 
we are desperately tired by this time, 
yt^t our spirit is full of joy with the con- 
sciousness that we have done our duty — 
nay we then do not ft^l it as duty, but 
as privilege, that we are allowed to 
work for Christ. 

I tl:ought it was my great privik^'e 
in this journey to have l)een allowed to 
see the love of the Christians of this 
region toward Miss Bradshaw. She is 
returning for her furlough and many 
Christians' " best wishes," " goodbye's " 
and '* seeing-ofTs " were really touching. 
Many eyes were moist with tears as they 
wished " lx)n voyage " and sang " God 
be with you till we meet again." For 
some of them were certain that the meet- 
ing will not l)e on this earth. Some 
brought a few trinkets, which are, none- 
th(dess, as precious and sincere as two 
Tnit(»s of the widow. 

Time of mobing Christianity Is gone 
for ever. Even in the street-meeting 
people hear most politely. Christians 
are looked up to as moralists. It is the 
most important time for the future of 
Chru^tianity. If Christians should fail 
— (God forbid it) — to come up to their 
expectations, t!ie future of Cliristian 
evangeliziit'on will be difl[icult. But if 
we m(vt tluMr exjx^ctations, then its 
progress will Ik» great. M(»n are fmil, 
AV(? nuist ask all our frientls to supjiort 



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us by deeds nnd prayers to fulfil the 
duty as Christian- workers. 



ACROSS THE BACK OF JAPAN. 

Several years ago, as Mrs. De Forest 
was staying in America with the children, 
and as Mr. Miller had not yet taken 
unto himself a wife, ho and I kept 
Imchelor's hall together for two years in 
Sendai, and thus cemented a friendship 
that threatens to abide forever. Then lie 
married a Connecticut larly, and, as tliat 
State is where Mrs. DeForest and I hale 
from, it made one more tie binding our 
friendship together. 

Having lived in Sendai twenty yeai-s, 
I know every missionary of tlie Reformetl 
German Church as well as I know my 
own kith and kin. I saw the foundations 
of their wide work laid by Dr. Hoy. I 
lived with the Noss family a year, and 
they are way up in my estimation. I have 
lectured repeateflly in their Tohoku Gaku- 
in. I took a brief part in the dwlication 
of their new Recitation Hall, probably th(^ 
finest school building of Middle School 
grade in the whole Empire. I have eaten 
at the tables of all their homes. I liave 
seen with joy the expansion of their evan- 
gelistic and educational work, now conspi- 
cuous among the larger missions of Japan. 

So when the Millers again urged me 
to redeem my ancient promise of a visit 
to their Yamagata home, I gladly decided 
to carry out the desi re of my lie^rt. I have 
just spent a delightful week with them on 
the heights of the Yamagata ran^re and in 
the plains wei5t that border on the Japan 
Sea. I saw about 100 miles of their 
parish, and Mr. Miller and I made ad- 
di'esses every night in churches, public 
halls, and theaters, Ixifore audiences 
that listened with the same eamestnoss 
for spiritual truth that now seonis mani- 
fest in the minds of thoughtful Japaneao 
all through the Empire. 

At the Yonezawa meeting the galleries 
were fille<l with Middle Seliool students, 
a class of young men who are osp^Hnally 
susceptible to religious influences, and 
prominent teachers were scattered through 



the audience. At Yamagata, the princi- 
pal of the Girls* Normal and Higher 
Schools was present, and had freely aide<l 
in advertising the meetings among the 
influential classes. At Shinjo, the pro- 
siding ofli(H^r of the meeting was the head 
judge of the place, a member of the 
Kumi-ai Church, but as is common with 
tliese open-minded people, he cared 
nothing for s'^tarian diflTerences. Beinjj 
sent to Shinjo, where there is no Kumi- 
ai organization, he at once identified 
himself with the German Reformed 
work. I waf^ delighted to see such a man 
stand l)efore the audience of t^vo hundix^l 
teachers, scholars, officials, and other 
prominent men, and not onlv conft^^ss 
himsolf a Christian but urge all present 
to o\¥iu their njinds and hearts to the 
call of God through Christ. At Sakata 
I met a successful Kumi-ai evangelist 
with whom I have worked for more than 
ten years, but who recently for family 
reasons had to move to Sakata where our 
mission has no work. I had introduced 
him to Mr. Miller who at once asked 
him to take olmrge of their work in 
Sakata and Tsunigaoka. He had al- 
ready gathered a ban<l of twenty or thirty 
wide awake young men who took 
full responsibility for the meeting wdiich 
has held in the public hall. His in- 
fluence was apparent from the fact 
that tlie daily paper wrote up the meet- 
ings with enthusiasm, cordially urging 
the peojile not to miss the coming oppor- 
tunity. Th(^ fvlitor himself presided at the 
meeting and introductnl us to a splendid 
audience of over five hundred. At 
Tsurugaoka the theater was put at our dis- 
posal and the holding lawyer of the town 
— a Christian — presided at a gathering of 
four hundi-ed. So much for the meetings. 
It was all too short' a week. The 
fiinsts for the eye as one crosses the back 
of Japan ; the spiritual strength of 
Christian fellowship; the joy of seeing 
tlie Kingdom coming through the work 
of friends, native and foreign, — ^these are 
some of the exceedingly great rewards of 
thos(> who ttjach and pi-actice the Gospel 
of Christ. ^ J. H. DeForiot. 



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KYOTO,' JAPAN, FRIDAY, FEB. 15tli, 1907. 



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CONTENTS. 

General Notes. 

Db. Babton's Letter. 

Kobe College Board of Manaoebs. 

„ S. A. Searle. 

WoBK OP THE Methodist Pbotestant 

Mia aiON U.O. Murphy. 

Umited Bbethben Wobk in Japan. 

..^ ^ A. T.Howard. 

TttE Factory Gntis' Home. 

^ H. F. Parmelee. 

Rssionations. 

MiTAZAKi NoTBs C. A. Clarke. 

Gifts for the Doshisha Theological 

Library S. L. Gulick. 

General Notes. 

The March issue of Mission News will 
be an ""Echigo Number" with map, 
{MCtures, and articles covering the work 
aooomplished in that field, its needs and 
pTcepects. Orders for extm copies of 
the issue should be seut in at once. 

Inasmuch as the Congregational, Me- 
thodist Protestant, and United Brethren 
bocfiea in America have gone far toward^ 
organic union, with the result that the' 
mission organisations supported tiy these 
bodies in Japan may also be brought to 
organic union in the not (Jetaiit future, 
it seemed eminently fitting that we 
should know more of each other's work 
here. We are therefore glad to publish 
this month two articles from represen- 
tatives of the Methodist Protestant and 
United Brethren Missions. 

* * * 5fi 

Dr. and Mrs. . DeForest bave sailed 
fpr a furlough in America. They went 
by .way of China aiid the Suez Canal. 



The Sendai " Kahoku Shimpo" 
newspaper] writes, — Dr. and Mrs. 
Forest leave Sendai this morning on the 
10 o'clock train for an extended trip 
through China and Europe to America 
where they will remain about a year 
taking much needed rest. Their long 
residence among our people has made 
them almost one of us and we can 
hardly help feeling parting sorrows as 
we tell them •* God's specKL" No for- 
eigner understands the Japanese, their 
strengths and weaknesses, better than 
the good Doctor and our appreciation of 
his services to this country in presenting 
Japan, in all its fairness, to the Ameri- 
can public is indeed unbounded. If our 
people think that they have made what 
Japan Is to-day by their own strength 
alone they are greatly mistaken. Be- 
hind Japan's victories, Japan's in* 
tellectual and moral progresses there are 
these missionaries who have always stood 
for the cause of justice. We owe much 
gratitude to the untiring and self-sacrifio- 
ing labor of Dr. and Mra De Forest 
who have given their lives for the educa- 
tion and teaching of our people. We 
wish them a bon voyage and speedy 
return to SendaL 

* * * * 

Dr. Learned has resigned from the 
position of Dean of the Theological 
School. Prof Hino will act as Regis- 
trar of the school until the vacancy caused 
by Dr. Lea mod's resignation has been 
filled. 

On the afternoon of Friday, February 



eighth, appropriate exercise 



hold 



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in Dofihisha instaUing Dr. 8. L. Gulick 
in the. Chair of Systematic Theology. 

* * * * 

The Academical Department of DO- 
ahisha has grown so rapidly of late that 
only a limited number of pupils will be 
admitted with the opening of the school 
year next April. Ko students will be 
received to the third or fifth year classes. 
A few may be admitted to the fourth 
year, while not more than ten will be 
admitted to the second year, and 
about one hundred and forty will be 
admitted to the entering or first year 
class. The theoretical limits of the 
classes will be one hundred and fifty for 
the first year ; one hundred and twenty 
for the second; and one hundred 
each for the other years. Tills will give 
an actual school roll of a little over five 
himdred students, as large a number as 
can well be handled in the school. 

* * * * 

Dr. Barton received a warm welcome 
during his all too brief stay in Japan 
while on his way to China last month. 
His time was fully occiq)ied in giving 
addresses and holding conferences with 
Japanese religious leaders and with 
members of the American Board and 
other missions in the cities where he 
stopped. His letter to the mission thru 
Dr. Learned, printed on another page, 
gives a good picture of the religious 
situation in Japan to-day. 

* * * * 

The Naniwa Church of Osaka cele- 
brated its thirtieth anniversary on the 
nineteenth of last month. Invitations to 
attend were sent to members of the 
American Board Mission and later 
pictures of the dnirch and its first pastor 
were also sent This is but one instance 
of the cordial fellowship existing be- 
tween the Kumi-ai Churches and the 
American Board missionaries. 

* * * * 

One result of the visit of Mr. F. I. 
Brown of the International Sunday 
School Association of North America 
has been the formation of a Sunday 



School Association of Japan. Hie 
Kyoto Sunday Schools, numbering 
twenty-three, have joined in the move- 
ment It is expected and hoped that a 
great impetus will be given to 'Sunday 
School work by this movement 

* * * * 

A Sundav School was organized in the 
Okayama Orphan Asylum on Januaiy 
sixth. Nine hundred children were 
under forty difierent teachers with Mr. 
Sawaya as superintendent and Mr. 
Ishii as adviser. 

:|c :|c * * 

The lot for the Y. M. C. A. building 
in Kyoto has at last been secured. It is 
in the heart of the city, three blocks east 
of the m^ post ofiUce. The buildings 
now on the lot wiU be moved ai^ the 
ground cleared next month. It is hoped 
that the fiDrty-five hundred yen stiD 
needed to complete the payment for the 
lot will be obtained in the near future. 

* * * * 

Mr. Mott, General Secretary of the 
Y. M. C. A., paid a flying visit to 
Kyoto the last of January. He guar- 
anteed five thousand dollars in addition 
to Mr. Wanamaker's gift for the Y. M. 
C. A. building and promised money for 
two or possibly three student dormitories 
m Kyoto. 

* * * * 

Preparations are well advanced for 
the conference of the World's Student 
Christian Federation which is to be held 
in Tokyo next April from the third to 
the seventh. Following the conference 
deputations will be sent to tiie diief 
student centers of Japan. Prayer is 
asked for this conference that it may 
give a marked impulse to all Chiistian 
work among the students of the Far 
East, and Uiat the viats made to the 
student centers thruout Japan may be 
attended with permanent and deeply 
spiritual results. 

* * * * 

Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Davis were for 
a time assodated with the American 
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are living^ in the Philtppinee. Mrs. 
Davis writes that they haveibuilt a new 
hoose in Tarlao P. I. yirhere they now 
resida Mrs. Davis [receives a salaiy 
equal to that of her husband and has 
Domestic Sdenoei^as her department. 
Mr. Davis has been promoted to super- 
ynsix^ work having several Municipal 
and barrio schools withii about twenty 
teadiers under his care. She says, — 

''We find many qyportunities in the 
school room to influence the children fer 
higher things and to teach them Chris- 
tian precepts without at all antagonizing 
GathoEoism. We can exert almost as 
strong a Christian influence here as we 
oould were we teaching in a Mission 
sdiooL" 



Dr. Barton's Letter. 

Kobe, January 26, 1907. 
My dear Dr. Learned, — 

I find it win be impossible for me to 
write to all of the members ofithe Japan 
Misnon before leaving for iChina so 
I venture toisendjyou'a^ line for the 
mission. 

I wish first of all to thank evety 
member of the mission who has so gener- 
ously contributed to make myibrief stop 
in Japan both pleasant and profitably 
(and who has not contributed to it?). 
I have been « overwhelmed^ with a^kindnees 
by both Americans and Japanese. I 
understand fuU well that this has not 
been personal but because, in a way, I 
represent the Board which we are 
ecdeavoring to serve while we work for 
the Christianisation of Japan. 

I have been afibrded unusual (op- 
portunities for meetins: the Jajpaneee 
leaders in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, 
Kobe, and Okayama land have been 
made to feel the glow of their cordiality 
and the warmth of their devotion to 
the cause i|of iChrist which we are 
endeavoring to advance in this Empire. 
Without exception,!^ in public and 
in ]Mivate,i'^ these l^ers and devout 
woTKers have expressed themselvee as 



believing there is abundant work in 
Japan for- both American and Japanese 
Christians. Whatever difiiculties there 
may have been in the past seem now to 
be forgotten as they should be and we 
all t(^her turn our faoea to the sunrise 
where, I believe, we can already see the 
dawning of a new day for this land 
Not "Japan for the Japanese,'' or 
"Americans for Japan," but "Japan 
for Christ " should be our united watch- 
word as we and they join our hearts, or 
prayers, or sympadiies and our eSbrta 
in this common cause that is too lai^ge 
and vital to be bounded hj national lines 
and too important to be hmdered by race 
differences. 

It is most gratifying to see how ad- 
mirably the fundamental policy of the 
American Board in all its mismonary 
work is developing in this country. 1 
refer to the policy of independence and 
self-support The strength, aggressive- 
ness, and sdf-support of the Kumi-ai 
Churches and of the Japanese Mission- 
ary Society have been referred to again 
and again by the Japanese leaders as 
due in no small measure to the fact that, 
from the first, the Japanese were expect- 
ed to bear a large part of the responsi- 
bility for the work. 

The present evangelistic movement 
imder the Japanese Missionaiy Society 
cannot foil to command the sympathy 
and admiration of all who understand 
it Never before in the history of any 
country, after less than fifty years of 
Christian eSbrt, have such diiidct, system- 
atic; and effective measures been put 
into operation for home evangelisation. 
It seems to me that we can now see on 
every side indications of a most sweeping 
revival. Mr. Miyagawa recently said to 
me that he believed there were now in 
Japan one million people not members of 
churches who were ordering their lives 
in accordance with the New Testament 
and who required now only to be brought 
to a public confession of their fiuth. 
These are wonderful times in which to 
live in Japan and to worker its evan- 

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I am greatly pleased with the attitude 
of all OUT missionaries whom I have met 
toward this revival I hope every one 
will have opportunity to share in this 
work. I believe that the way is rapidly 
opening, if it is not now open, for the 
missionary to join hands with odr Japan- 
ese brethren in one united effort. 

My heart thrills with gratitude when 
I see how effectively the Doshisha seems 
to be carrying out the purposes of Dr. 
Neesima. The large number of stu- 
dents, the earnestness of the teachers, 
the enthusiasm of the trustees, and the 
way in which the new President, Mr. 
Harada, links up this honored institu- 
tion with the churches, all promise much 
for the future. The fact that there are 
now forty-one men in the Theological 
Department gives us reason to expect 
that the new evangelistic movement in 
the churches demanding new preachers 
of the Gospel, is to be met in good mea- 
sure by this institution founded to meet 
this demand. I believe the Doshisha 
has a wide field in this country not only 
to give sound education but to create in 
its pupils high Christian characters with- 
out which an education may become a 
curse and not a blessing. 

In the country at large it seemsjto me 
that the great body of students with open 
and enquiring minds, presents a most 
promising field in which to plant Chris- 
tian truths. The change from eleven 
years ago when I was last here is 
almost incredible. Any plans that 
result in bringing fairly before students 
and teachers the fundamental facts of 
our Christian religion cannot fail to bear 
much fruit now but must also produce 
increasing results in the future. Japan 
is to be led by its scholars. If these 
leaders are Christian, as they are more 
and more coming to be, it will mean 
everything for the new Japan. 

Moreover Japan cannot longeri stand 
by herself. She already touches, in a 
vital manner, Corea and China. She 
must put her stamp upon those two 
countries. We cannot estimate the 
future influence upon China, of the great 



number of Cliinese students) [studying 
here. As no man can live xtr die unto 
himself, so may we say of a nation. Of 
no nation can this be more truly stud 
than of Japan to-day. The'Cliristians 
in Japan, both Japanese and i foreign, 
cannot fail to have the larger vision of 
the great Far iJast with its walls of 
seclusion crumbling and its awakening 
intellect crying out after [^thoi God in 
whom it may intelligently boMevo. 
Why should not America and Japan 
join hands as they have never done 
before in pressing the claims of Chris- 
tianity upon the four hundred millions of 
people just across the narrow arm of the 
sea! 

It is a time for sinking out of 
sight, as &r as possible, racial and 
denominational differences and uniting 
upon the dwnmon cteed ^ Jesus Christ 
the salvation of the world." I believe 
we are ready for this movement which ' 
has already begun. ' 

I am profoundly grateful for the 
great servi<ie Dr. Rowland has rendered 
me. I feel that my brief delay here h^ 
better prepared me for facing the prob- 
lems in China, Do not fail to pray that 
sound body^ clear mind and undimroed 
vision may be given to the deputation that 
its work may count for the future church 
ofCliina. 

With fraternal greetings to aU. 

Sincerely yours, 

James L. Barton. 



Kobe College Board or 
Managers. 

The new Board of Managers for 
Kol>e College held its first meeting ou 
Wednesday, January thirtieth, at tlit 
College. The Board consists of twelve 
members, besides the Principal of the 
College. Of these at least two must be 
alumnea of the institution. Nomina- 
tions are made by the Mission and con- 
firmed by the Woman's Board of the 
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The members present at the meotiiig 
last Wednesday were Mrs. Ichida of the 
firet class graduated from the school, 
Mrs. Ibuka of Tokyo, Miss Cozad, Mrs. 
Warren, President Harada of the Dc>- 
shisha, Drs. Atkinson, Car}', Greene, and 
Learned, Mr. Allchin, and Miss Searlo. 
Dr. Davis was detained hy illness, and 
Mr. Tamura of Kobe is away from 
Japan. Dr. Gary was chosen President. 
The organisation of the Board necessari- 
ly oocapicd a large part of the scs.sion. 
Mrs. Ichida felt constrained to resign on 
account of poor health, and Mrs. Ynasa 
of Kyoto was chosen to fill her place. 

In connection with the question of 
raising salaries of teachers the fact was 
broQgbt out that these are in some cases 
very inadequate, and that consequently 
a general investigation of the subject 
should be made, followed by a strong 
representation to the Woman's Board of 
the Interior of the need of increased 
appropriations for this and other ex- 
penses to enable the Gollege to keep 
pace with the rapidly increasing demands 
and opportunities. 

Arrangements were made for an 
authorized translation into Japanese of 
the constitution of the Board. 

Mr. Sawa, Dr. Atkinson's i assistant, 
was chosen clerk of the Gollcge. 

Mr. Allchin was asked to present at 
the April meeting plans and estimates 
for rooms (probably an enlargement 
of the present building) for Domestic 
Science, and for the much needed Gymna- 
sium. A committee was appointol to 
present to the Woinan's Board of the 
Interior the importance of carrying out 
the plans partly made for a Domestic 
Science Department. Mrs. Moses Smith 
has already secured the promise of one 
thousand dollars for its equipment. 

It was voted to secure a regularly 
trained teacher of gymnastics. 

The Executive Committee was in- 
fracted to present at the April meet- 
ing a plan for classification of teachers 
and organisation of departments in the 
CJollege. 

Tho the amount of business trans- 



acted at the meeting seems small when 
put in print, we feel that the day marked 
an epoch in the history of the College. 
The formal co-operation of our Japanese 
friends at the organisation of the Board 
is auspicious, and even at this first meet- 
ing was proved to be especially valuable. 

Susan A. Sfart.e. 



Work of The Methodist 
Protestant Mission. 

The principal work of the Methodist 
Protestant Mission is in Nagoya, where 
there is a self-supporting church, five 
chapels and a Middle School in the city, 
and two chapels in towns near by con- 
nected with the city work. 

The church has about one hundred and 
thirty full members, sixty prol>ationers, 
and over one hundred inquirers. About 
forty five yen per month is raised by the 
members. Tliere are over one hundred 
inquirers attached to the chapels. But 
these are turned over to the church as 
rapidly as they can be induced to attend 
there. The first baptisms at the country 
chapels attached to the city work will 
take place soon. 

Special stress is laid on work for child- 
ren and over six hundred are enrollcfl in 
the church and chapels m Nagoya as 
Sunday School scholars, tho most of the 
" Sunday School *• sessions arc held on 
week days- 

For the work in the city and surround- 
ing territory we have one pastor. Two 
evangelists and one raissonary family. 
Two members of the Women's Mission- 
ary Society look after the work for 
women and children. 

Work is being carried on in the Chita 
Peninsula by an ordained pastor and the 
Hamamatsu work is also attached to the 
Nagoya District. The ladies also have 
a missionary located at Ilamamatsu and 
a kindergarten has IxK'n o])ene(l there 
recently. The Nagoya Kindergarten 
will soo|i rejoice in a new building. It 
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Ise, and negotiations are being carried on 
with the CSimberJand Presbyterian Mis- 
sion for that purpose. 

A recently arrived missionary family 
is located near the school in Nagoya for 
study and for English work in the 
sehool. 

In Yokohama there are three organis- 
ed churches, all aided. by the mission, 
and one night school with two hundred 
students. The Girls' School is located 
here also, with two ladies in charge. 
There are about one hundred and thirty 
pupils, including those of the primary 
grade. One missionary family is located 
near the night school in charge of that 
work. Two of the three churches will 
probably be united soon and chapels 
attached to each church and efforts made 
to bring them up to self-support during 
the present year. One out-station is 
attached to the Yokohama work. 

There are two organised churches in 
Tokyo, but one may be reduced "to 
a chapel soon and the funds now used 
for it transferred to some more hopeful 
field. Ground will soon be purchased 
for the Shiba, Tokyo, church and as the 
church organisation is already in a flour- 
ishing condition, rapid growth is expected 
after removing to new quarters. 

Shizuoka City has one organised 
church and one Lecture HalL One 
missionary family is located there and 
there are three country circuits in the 
Prefecture. A now chapel was recently 
dedicated at Oyama, but asTthere is no 
pastor, the Shizuoka pastor visits the 
place twice monthly. 

The work is all united, and in a 
vigorous condition. Mission and native 
work are one. The total meml)ership is 
now over one thousand. 

U. G. Murphy. 



United Brethren Work in 
Japan. 

Walkmg along the street the other 
day, a fellow-missionary remarkeil, ** I 
do not see that we have very much in 



Japan except an opportunity." No- 
thing but a fine opportunity at the 
beginning of the twentieth century in 
this land of poesibiUties, and what could 
the most ambitious desire more ? 

Our church was about the last to 
establish itself in Japan, Japanese re- 
presentatives having come out from Amer^ 
ica in the autumn of eighteen ninety- 
five, the reason therefore being that our 
Board, after forty years' experience in 
West Africa, desired to open work in a 
field presenting an entirely different class 
of problems from thase presented in the 
tropics. 

. There were to be no missionaries 
according to that first plan but somehow 
it did not work, as the Missionary 
Secretary found it necessary to make 
two visits to Japan during the first two 
years to help untie some hard knots. 
The writer returned to America in the 
summer of eighteen ninety-eight from 
Africa, where he had served one term, 
and a few weeks later was sent as the 
first missionary of the United Brethren 
Church to this field, Mrs. Howard com- 
ing six months later. Rev. and Mrs. 
J. E. Knipp and Rev. and Mrs. Joseph 
Cosand joined our staff in nineteen 
hundred. After throe years, Mr. 
Knipp's health Ixxjame impaired by too 
close application to the study of the 
language and he was obliged to return 
to America. Rev. Monroe Crecelius, 
another yoke-fellow, came out in 
September of last year. 

In the discovery of earnest young 
men who desired to do Christian work 
and by helping them in their training, we 
have sought to make ourselves useful. 
Three married men took a reading 
course at home with frequent examina- 
tions. Two men have graduated from 
the DOshisha Theological School while a 
third is a student there now. Tliree 
other men while working in Tokyo have 
taken work at the Aoyama Theological 
School, one of whom has already graduat- 
ed. Four Bible women are employed, 
two of whom are still studying at the 
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Tokyo. These details may bo somewhat 
excessive but I only mention them to 
show that thus far all have been students 
rather than very aggressive workers. 

We have throe churches in Tokyo,- 
one in Nihombashi, one in Aoyama, 
and one in Honj5. East and north of 
TokyOj in Shimosa, three pastors are 
working in Funabashi, Narashino, Ichi- 
kawa, Matsudo, Nagareyama, and Noda. 
Along the Tokaido there are pastors at 
Odawara, Numazu, Shizuoka,i Kusatsu, 
Otsu, and Kyoto with work in adjoining 
villages 

Over six hundred people have been 
connected with our church but many 
of them, being young people, soon 
moved where the DobO Kyokwai 
(United Brethren Church) was not repre- 
sented and were thus lost to us. Our 
pastors can now put their fingers on only 
three hundred and twelve persons. It is 
in the holding and developing of the 
church membership that we look for the 
greatest help in this glorious union that 
is surely on the way. Workers con- 
nected with a small mission can make 
converts but I have serious doubts 
whether such a mission can make a 
church. People need to be caught in the 
swing of a large movement in onler to 
develop that &*pnt de corps required in a 
vigorous church organisation. So aside 
from all sentimental reasons, for the sake 
of our undeveloped membership who will 
certainly be stimulated by the vision and 
vigor of the Kumi-ai churches, let the 
union come and come swiftly. 

I am glad to say that evidences of the 
good hand of God upon us are not 
wanting. Altho Mr. Ishiguro, the 
pastor of the Kyoto church, is in 
America, there were sixteen accessions 
there last year making sixty-five in 
all now. At Shizuoka, thanks to the 
assistance given by our young people in 
America, we were able to build a neat 
church and rebuild a house now used for 
a parsonage. The Aoyama Sunday 
School has out-grown its building and a 
canvas for a new one has been started 
there. Judge Emonda Ono, formerly 



connected with the Court of Cassation, 
is a most earnest and faithful worker 
in this church. 

At Narashino, twenty miles east of 
Tokyo, there are four regiments of 
cavalry to whom the Funabashi pastor, 
Mr. Minaguchi, devotes two days each 
week. There is a Christian soldiers' 
club with a membership of fifty men who 
meet at the little building used for 
church pur|X)sos. Th(?y have a couple 
of hats full of well worn old l)ooks, a few 
Testaments and hymnals and scorn to 
enjoy the purity of the jnoral atmosphere 
aflbnled by that club tho only eight or 
ten of them are C'hristians. Those 
fellows have a robust faith, — I pre- 
sume it is needful in order to live a 
Christian life in the Japanese army or 
any other army for that matter. I 
never feel, however, that I give as much 
as I got, when I go there. 

Just now, the conditions at Noda cap 
our United Brethren climax. Noda, as 
everybody ought to know, is famous for 
the manufacture of shoi/u, (Japanese 
Soy). A son of one manufacturer of 
this important Japanese product went to 
Korea last year to start a branch estab- 
lishment there. He is an exceptionally 
earnest Christian and took seven other 
memlxjrs of the church with hira to work 
in his factor}'. 

Over there tho new Life of General 
Booth fell into his hands which so 
stirred him that when he came home to 
be married in December, it was with a 
burning desire to do something for Noda. 
Accordingly, ho and the other members 
of the Noda church collected a fund of 
fifty-eight yen, sent the pastor down to 
Tokyo to invite seven pastors, two 
Presbyterians connected with Mr. Ue- 
mura's Theological school, and five of our 
own men to go up and give the people of 
Noda something to think about besides 
sJwyu and money. Of course all the 
preachers did good but the most effective 
work was that done by Mr. Mogi, the 
young man from Korea, and the Noda 
Christians. 

One night thiBigiE^'an Roberts spoke 



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for an hour playing on one motive and 
then another like a trained psycholo- 
gist and yet I am sure he never ouoe 
thought of psychology. The face of his 
brother, who that night attended church 
for the iii-st time, was a study. Twenty - 
four enrolled themselves as seekers and 
they are still earnestly seeking. Immedi- 
ately following this five days' evangelistic 
service, this young zealot led off in a 
canvas for the Okayama oq)hanage as 
a result of which thirteen hundnxl yen 
were sc;cured which brought additional 
sunshine, I presume, to the benevolent 
countenances of Supt. Ishii and Dr. 
Pettee. 

Thus, as you see, we do not have 
much in Japan, but " an opportunity," 
but what fellowship is rarer than fellow- 
ship with a great oppoituuity? AVith 
that and the strong fellowship of the 
union that is to Ik>, we believe the future 
will disclose to us botli new might and 
new me^minir. A. T. Howard. 



The Factory Girls' Home. 

The Factory Girls' Home in Matsu- 
yama, has, all these months in which 
it has not Ixcn lifting up its voice to the 
public, l)een quietly pursuing the even 
tenor of its way, modestly doing its daily 
duty, hving its clean lite ui the sight of 
all men and it would seem that all men 
have look(Hl upon it, for re]3eatedly have 
we l)fM»n inspijcted by govermnent of- 
ficials and reportej-s. 

There came to us a newspaper man 
repiesenting an Osaka industrial paper, 
the organ of factory men and probably 
read widely by them. He stayed several 
days and thoroly investigated us and 
wrote us up. Our Home was called 
" Paradise " and he said it was made 
not for money but for love; made for 
the wealth of the heait ; made for love 
and tears (sympathy). 

One from the Home Deimrtment of 
the Central Government said that it was 
** a spixiial salvation work." 

Again it was said that in the school 



work our pupils had nothing to be 
ashamed of before pupils of the r^ular 
city primary schools, that it was " plain 
to be seen that the teachers made women 
of the girls." 

It is a fact that girls have come to us 
who knew not a letter nor oould write 
their own names, and in a year's time 
learned to \vrite a very good letter. 

A government health oifidal from 
Tokyo thoroly approved of us, wishing 
there were many such homes in the land. 

The house, its location with some open 
air space aliout it, the food and care and 
cleanliness are thought to be the reason 
for the l)etter health of our girls com- 
pared with those in otlier boarding 
houses. 

The Home Department of the Central 
Government sent down word to the Pre- 
fectural Office to investigate us, and it 
was thoroly done. The result appeared 
in a leading Tokyo paper where we 
were the most praised and elaborated 
ujion among nine benevolent works 
scattered here and here thru the country ; 
ours the only one apparently connected 
with Christianity, tho possibly one 
kindergarten included in the number 
may be. 

At a convention of factory officials 
and those interested in that work, (the 
first of its kind) held at Osaka July 1, 
11K)6, there were representatives from 
sixteen factory schools, among others 
Mr. Oraoto from ours. Examination 
}>apers were showTi from all schools, those 
from ours being highly praised. One 
paper spoke of them as probably being 
liest of all ; another paper selected four 
of the schools which showed the beet 
work, of which ours was one. Another 
newspaper said our Home was the one 
such work in all Japan. It certainly 
is a fact that it was the first of all. The 
factoiy- itself shows its approval by 
giving us two yen per month. 

The Governor of Matsuyama has 
three times sent thanks to the girls ot the 
Home for their benevolent work for 
others, for making comfort bags for the 
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money to the needy, all of which 
money was earned by the girls by work- 
ing over time, which means more than 
twelve hours per day. 

Again the Board of EducatiiH) in the 
dty of Matsuyama has shown its con- 
fidence in us by asking us to take into 
our school poor pupils in our section of 
the city for whom otherwise a special 
city night school was needed. It was a 
matter that required careful thought lest 
we should come under hampering restric- 
tions but it was finally decided to receive 
pupils up to a certain number, (sixty) 
including our own. 

We inado an apph'cation to the govern- 
ment in this connection to bo not only 
a school but a ChrMan school. Wc 
were advised not to word the request 
that way as none such had ever been 
granted by the government. It was 
said we should word the request as a 
school to teach morality but not to ask 
for it as a Christian school. Neverthe- 
less the request went in for existence 
as a Christian school and the permission 
came without delay. Sucli a plain 
distinct permission to a Christian school, 
so £ur as we know, has never heretofore 
been given to apy school, collie, or 
Christian place of instruction lin the 
land. 

At present we have but three girls 
sent to us by the Board of Education, as 
we opened our school to them in tlie 
middle of the school year. It is con- 
fidently expected that more will come 
from the beginning of the school year in 
ApriL 

Notwithstanding all these proofe of 
our influence and usefulness, and the 
approval in which we are held, whereof 
we are glad, our home is suffering from 
the general prosperity of the country and 
has thus &r fail^ in its originahexpec-ta- 
tion of being self-supporting. 

The life of girls in factories is at the 
best very severe. Outside air must Ix) 
kept from the cotton thread during the 
process of spuming, as it is supposed 
to cause injury to the thread. This 
makes the temperature of the factory in 



summer sometimes over.' one '.hundred 
degrees Fahrenheit, the result being 
sunstrokes among the girls. One of our 
Home girls had one last summer whose 
hfe, the doctor said, would have been 
lost had she not received careful nursing 
from Mr. and Miu Omoto. 

The confined air of the factory, with 
the dust, conduces in winter to lung 
troubles so that parents who have had 
experience of these things, do not send 
their daughters to work in the fisictories 
imless from actual necessity. 

The contract which girls make on en- 
tering the factory is for three years 
but from practical experience it is found 
to be bad for even a well, strong 
robust girl to continue work for more 
than one year at a time. Possibly some 
girls may work two years but it is fiu* 
better for them to work six months and 
rest six months. 

Since the war the country population 
lias been quite prosperous. The &rmers 
are doing weU. Many soldiers' families 
have received government money and 
are not in need. The result is that the 
factory itself is in great straits for hands, 
for while it is desirous of enlarging its 
plant to employ five hundred girls 
instead of three hundred as at present, it 
cannot get them. Its hands have 
decreased rather than increased from the 
above mentioned causes. It is, however, 
making plans to build and open a large 
boaiding house and school for all its 
employees on plans similar to ours, 
having seen the good effects of the Homo 
on the girls. They have asked Mr. 
Omoto to take fiill superintendence of 
the new home and school but he declined 
as it could not be a distinctly Christian 
Home and school. He believes he can 
continue his own work where his 
hi^art Is, as the factory oflScials agree 
not to interfere with his Home. For 
these reasons the numbers in our Home 
have decreased but in smaller propor- 
tion than those in the whole factory 
and other boarding houses. 

More than this the great fiu^tories in 
Osaka and other largC/^places, since our 

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Horrte was started, have improved the 
conditioDS of their employees, adding 
schools and parks for their benefit 
and giving larger wages than does the 
Matsuyama factory, so that some girls 
from our region have gone to Osaka 
factories. 

Then there is the fact that petty 
persecution of our girls is going on all 
the time from the other boarding houses 
and some trouble our girls because they 
come from a Christian scliool. Girls 
from the other boarding houses who 
approve of us and desire to come 
to us are prevented by the keepers 
who find ways to persecute the girls 
and ke<^p them from us, so that the 
numbers in our Home must be kept up 
by those already in touch with us or by 
entirely new girls upon whom we 
siKiceed in getting the first hold. 

All these circumstances have conduced 
to prevent our Home from being self- 
supporting thru Jack of the number, 
fifty, which we expected would suffice to 
make us sclf-suppoiting. Our house?, 
too, proved not to Ire large enough for 
this number, as it was found from 
experience impracticable to put the night 
hands and the day hands into the same 
beds and rooms to sleep alternately. 

Our thought from the first, tho it was 
not emphasized, was that eventually our 
Home should be large enough to be a 
home for working girls in the city who 
desire a clean, wholesome life and have 
no home. 

The great industry of the town is the 
weaving of a certain kindj of cloth called 
*' lyogassuri." Girl weavers (rf this cloth, 
if we could furnish looms and room only, 
would make their home with us. Indee<l 
one Cliristian man has offered to put 
girls into our Homo whom he should 
employ as weavers if we would, furnish 
room and looms. 

Numerous letters from girls who were 
in our Homo while they were at work in 
the factory have said that were there 
any other work for them they 
wanted to and would come back to 
us. Some of tiio letters from girls who 



have returned home have been most 
touching. One girl said she did not care 
for money or the factory work iMit 
wanted to be in the Home and near tho 
teachers to learn fr6m them as befora 

Two girls went to the Iraabain church 
one Sunday seven and one half miles 
from their home, and felt as if they were 
healing their teachers in the Home again. 
One of these same girls said her ^und- 
mother was glad since she went home 
because she was not so quick-tempered as 
of old. She an<l her grandmother 
thought it must be God's work in her 
heart. 

Parents write of the good influence of 
the Home on their daughters. Numbers 
of the girls would come back to us if 
they could get work which was not so 
unhygenic as tlie factor}^ work. It has 
been Mr. Oraoto's grief that he could 
not have girls under Christian influence 
longer and more consecutively. He has 
dissuaded several from baptism because 
they were going to their homes amid 
wholly unchristian surroundings and 
influences ; could they stay at the Home 
until they wei-e ftilly grounded in faith 
he would be happy, for his first and last 
thought is to ma!ke the girls acquainted 
with God their Heavenly Father, and 
Jesus, the expression of His love to man. 
He has long been thinking and planing 
how he could keep these girls in the 
Home which they love, until their faith 
is grounded; but who, because of the un- 
healthy work in the factor}", leave it 

We have recently purchased six 
hundred and forty-one tsubo (about h»lf 
an acre) of land adjoining our property, 
as we had long l^eon advised to do, with 
money on hand from past gifts* On 
this land was a house which has been 
moved away from the street and repaired. 
It is capable of holding nine looms which 
Miss Judson's night school is willing to 
loan to us. For the repair and change 
of location of the house we have incurred 
a debt of something over twa hundred 
yen. However Mr. Omoto ia determined 
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that the girls remain until establislied 
Christian character is formed. To do 
this we shall eventually need a yet larger 
plant 

The new land will furnish a much 
needed play-ground for the girls and a 
small garden besides room for the house 
with nine looms. We need money to 
clear off the debt above mentionwl and 
to clear the ground of underbrush and 
bamboo stumps. We also need money 
for running expenses, for at present, 
with the rise in prices and the decrease in 
the number of girls, we are running 
behind We do not wish to make the 
food poorer than it is^ tho by doing 
90 we might somewhat improve our 
finances. 

The Factory and Working Girls' 
Home again steps before the public 
holding out its empty .hand not as a 
beggar but as a co-worker with all forces 
for good and the up-liftmg of mankind. 

H. Frances PARMELEte. 



To Miss Parmelee's most intei-esting 
statement as to the condition and present 
needs of the Matsuyarna Factory Girls' 
Home and her request for help I wish to 
add a word of cordial approval. 

The Home has already done a work 
for the factory girls of Japan which we 
cannot easily over-estimate. It would be 
a sad confession of weakness to the non- 
Christian world should we now, for lack 
of means, bo unable to carry our plans 
thru. I trust that the generous friends 
who have enabled us in the past to ac- 
complish thus much \n][ not only ftn^l 
that their gifts have been wisely expend- 
ed but will also be inclined by additional 
gifts to help still further this practical 
application to social problems of the 
teaching and spirit of Jesus. 

S. L. GULICK. 



Resignations. 



been received, within the past few 
months, and accepted by the Prudential 
Committee. One is that of Mr. and 
Mrs. Bell who resigned last fall. Owing 
to sickness they had been but a brief 
time in Japan, scarcely more than two 
years. The furlough in America did not 
bring the hoped for health and strength 
so that it seems inadvisable for them 
to return to Japan. Mr. Bell is now 
assistant secretary to Dr. Barton in the 
Board Roonfs. Tho here but a brief time 
wo miss Mr. and Mrs. Bell very much 
from our circle. 

The second resignation, likewise for 
reasons of health, was from Miss Mary 
Holbrook M.D. 

After some years of medical work in 
China Dr. Holbrook joined the Japan 
Mission in 1889. Most of her time* was 
given to Kobe College where she helped 
establish the Department of Biology. 
She drew the plans for tho Music and 
Science Buildings and gave many years 
of valuable service to the Building Com- 
mittee as well as to the Collie. 

Dr. Holbrook now resides in Pacific 
Grove, California where she has a home 
of her very own. We rejoice that she 
has regained suflficient health to attend 
meetings in different places and to do 
some public ^Deaking. She assures us 
that in spirit she • will always remain a 
member of the Japan Mission giving us 
her deep interest and prayers but no one 
can quite take her place in the mission. 



Two resignations from membership in 
he American Board Japan Mission have 



Miyazaki" Notes. 

(These were recefved too late to be 
includedSin the January^issue). 

The Miyakonojo Church rejoices great- 
ly in its Christmas present from the 
Loitl of ninei^new Christians, baptised 
on Sunday, the twenty-third of Decem- 
ber, the day^^lxiforei their^ Christmas 
celebration. Miyakonojo has been 
pastorless for nearly a year and what 
help it has received has had to be from 
Miyazaki. This in-gathering is largely 
the result of earnest Bible ^tjLid^i^ AVe 

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expect that others will be n:lded to this 
group before lonof. Two or three have 
already expressed their decision to bo- 
oorae Christians and to fit themselves by 
diligent Bible study to enter the fellow- 
ship of the church at the spring commun- 
ion service. One lady who thought 
that she must postpone baptism on ac- 
count of the probable opposition of re- 
latives said, with much feeling, when I 
called tTie next day. "It lacked just 
one of being ten and I was that one." 
She did not attend the Sunday servico 
because she could not endure the ad- 
ditional reminder of her loss. She 
intends by earnest Bible study mean-, 
while, to be ready next time. Miss 
Higashi Tsutsumi is working there very 
effectively. 

Miyazaki had very interesting Christ- 
mas exercises on the twenty-fifth. Mr. 
Okamoto and I attended the Christmas 
celebration at Tsuma on the twenty-sixth 
which was sp^ally good. The children 
of the Sunday School, seventy or more, 
were all there and the nice company of 
twenty or more young people, who 
alwavs attend the meetings with Bibles 
and hymn-books ready for use, were all 
there and enough others to crowd the 
room fuP, in spite of free tickets to the 
openmg night of the theatre. The 
Christmas exercises were more attractive 
than the theatre, a very encouraging 
fact. In the afternoon two young people 
were baptised. There are only half a 
dozen Christians in the place but most 
of them are working Christians, grudg- 
ing nothing which will help evangelistic- 
ally. On Wednesday evenings and 
Sunday mornings they gather the 
children, seventy or so of them, for 
Bible instruction. Thoy also maintain a 
night school besides the Sunday evening 
meetings, usually attended by one of us 
from Miyazaki, in which children and 
adults both share. They rent a store on 
the main street for a church, have just 
bought an organ without outside help, 
and are wide-awake. 

At Sadowara, on the twenty-seventh, 
one young man received baptism and in 



the evening Christmas \r9S celebrated. 
Here too the Christians, tho few in 
numbers, keep up a good Sunday School 
and are working in other ways. 1^18 
Sadowara-Tsuma field promises much 
and should have an evangelist to lead 
in the work. 

Many readers of Mission News will 
be pained to hear of the death of Mr. 
Tomekuni Mori of Tokanobe, a pro- 
minent Christian in Japan and one of 
the charter members of the Hakodate 
Kumi-ai Church. 

Repairs on the Miyazaki Church are 
progressing. The new galleries were 
ready for the Christmas exercises but 
some plastering and the papering still 
remain to be done. C. A. Clark. 



Gifts for the Doshisha 
Theological Library. 

During my recent furlough it was 
my pleasure to present, as opportunity 
offered, the various needs of the Christian 
work in Japan. Of several efforts two 
have proved successful. 

The first is the gift of three hundred 
dollars ($300) from the William E. 
Hale Fund, This was secured through 
the kind help of the Rev. E.F. Williams 
D.D. of Chicago, who takes a lively 
interest in the welfare of Christian work 
throughout the world. He invited me to 
his study, two years ago last November, 
and asked many questions as to the 
Doshisha and the prospects of the King- 
dom of God in Japan. He told me at 
that time of this Hale Fund, of the 
administrating committee of which he is 
a member, and added that something 
might he secured from it for the Doshisha 
Theological Library. Two letters from 
Germany were written him in r^jard to 
the mattor, but I did not know until 
reaching Japan that he had actually 
secured the above raentionel gift. 

The second is the formation of a 
committee whose punx)se is to gather 
funds for the Doshisha library. TTiis 
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University of Berlin was an attractive present the letter and see what could be 
appearing man whose notes were, I done. I did so with the result that some 
observed,, in Epglisk Venturing ^ to: * months- later a cmnnrittee ^f ^jc^ orgoniz- 
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and energetic, but an exceptionally warm- public and invited contributions. A 

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CONTENTS. 

CovKR Picture.— Skow Scenk 

2IEAR SaNASHL 

Map of Echigo. 

The Province of Echigo. 

Historical Sketch. 

PiCTUBE. — Workers in Echigo. 

The Work in Xiigata. 

The Mother's Club. 

Picture.— The Niigata ('hurch. 

The Niigata Church. 

A Breach in the Wai.i^. 

Out-Stations. 

Touring in Echigo. 

*' Darkest Echkjo." 

PiCTPURE.— The Sunshine Socurrv. 

Work for Women in Echigo. 

The Story of Sanashi. 

Seed Time and Harvest. 

Tottori Items. 



For a lirae we were undecided whether to 
call tliis issne of Mission News a Niigata 
or Echigo Number but finally chose the 
former name as meaning more to our 
readers. Echigo is the name of the entire 
province of which I^iigata is the chief 
city. The mission work thru-out the pro- 
vince is carried on from Niigata where the 
missionaries live. Oar object lias been to 
give a clear picture of the work of one 
mission station as it is carried on in an 
entire province, showing the need of the 
work with its discouraging, but more 
especially, encouraging features. So many 
articles were received that it was impossible 
to include them all in this issue, tho it 
is eight pages larger than usual. 

The Province of Echigo. 

Just a word about tho province of 
Echigo may help to srive the setting for 
the articles which are to follow. 

Echigo is one of the west coast 
provinces, in area ab/iit forty- six 
thousand sq. miles or approximately the 
same size as the State of (bnnocticut. 
It lies between high mountain ranges 
and the sea, and is watered by a score of 
rivers. One of tlicse, the Shinauo, which 
flows into the sea at Niigata, is the 
lai^est river in Japan taking its leisurely 
way north thru the heart of the country 
and creating a magnificent flood plain. 
With its tributaries it affords a fine 
water wav thru the interior, and is the 



chiefest source of Echigo's wealth. The 
province has about two himdred miles 
of sea-coast, and twenty miles away is 
the large island of Sado, united with it 
in the same prefecture. 

As regards natural resources Echigo 
is one oif the wealthiest provinces in 
Japan. The fact that it is an oil center 
will impress itself upon the most careless 
traveler. You see the oil wells on the hill 
slopes, the gre^it tanks in the principal 
cities, and everywhere is the smell of 
buriug petroleum, from the locomotive 
bfjhind which you ride, to tho big re- 
fineries niong the way. It is this 
industry which, more than any other, is 
building up certain large cities. The 
Standard Oil Company has a large plant 
mann;.;od by several foreigners in 
Naottsu. 

But the mountains yield far more than 
o!l. They hold an immense wealth of 
minemis which is only beginning to 1k^ 
exploited. The lumber industry is fairly 
well developed and great possibilities 
are open in this direction. It has not 
yet been fotmd profitable to work 
the coal diswvered in the mountains, 
owing to the difliculties of transportation. 
But natural gas is abundant and cheap. 
A sharp bend of soveral miles in the 
Shinano Biver above Nagaoka is utilized 
by means of a tunni^l to obtain a splendid 
fall of water, which furnishes electric 
power enough to give light to the city. 
This is a sample of the many new in- 
dustries which are springing up on every 
hand. 

The rivers furnish a most important 
soui-ce of w(5alth in the fish which swarm 
in from the se^i in sjm^vning time. Along 
the coast, too, there is much fishing done, 
and edible seaweeds are collected in great 
quantities. 

But f]cliigo, thanks to the Shinano, is 
first of all an agricultural country with 
the finest ri(X3 lands in all Japan. The 
rice for the Emperor's table comes from 
the neighborhood of Shibatii. In haiTCst 
time, as far as the eye can reach, notl\ing 
can bo seen but the tall hedges of dr}M*ng 
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especially the Japanese pear and the 
j)ei*8iranion, also many other prcwhicts of 
the soil, from cotton and ten lo edible 
chrysanthemums. 

The manufactured produ( ts are varied 
and interesting. Niigata and Murakami 
are famous for their lacquer; other 
j)laoes are devoted to the manufacture of 
wine and sak^, brick and jjottery, 
matting, cork, and paper ; to silk raising, 
cloth weaving, and the i)utting up of 
canned goods. 

The winters in Echigo while not 
R^verely cold are very damp and 
disagreeable with heavy falls of snow 
from the two or three feet at Niigata to 
the ten feet and more on the level at 
Nagaoka and the hill towns. At other 
seasons the sky is often overcast, but on 
fine days with the great river and 
majestic mountains on one side, and the 
blue Sea of Japan on the other, you ftn^l 
that there are ft^w places on earth lovelier 
than Niigata. 

E. 8. Cobb. 



Historical Sketch. 

I. — Some of the Earlv Christian 
Work. 

The histor}' of Christian work in 
Echigo begins with the year 18(>I), the 
same year that the Anierican Board 
began work in Jajmn. In that year 
Dr. Samuel R. Brown, one of tho 
pioneer missionaries to Jajmn sent out 
by the Dutch Reformed Church in 1809, 
accepted the position of English teacher 
in the Government School at Ts^iigata. 

No direct missionary work could 1x5 
done in those days, but on every Sunday 
Dr. Brown held a Bible class in his own 
house. Eor this Christian work he was 
dismissed by the Government at the end 
of ten months, and a new foreign teacher 
engaged who was anything but a Chris- 
tian, and whose evil courst! in Niigata 
soon led the Government to bitterly 
regret the step taken. 

In 1875 Dr. llieodore A. Palm, of 
the Edinburg Medical Mission, came to 



Niigata and was the first Christian Mis- 
sionary to bc*gin active work in I^chieo. 
For eight years he engaged in both 
medical and evangelistic work, and made 
a lasting impression for goo<l upon this 
whole r^ion. 

Early in 1 88.S Dr. Palm made over- 
tures to Dr. Berry of our Mission con- 
coming a transfer of the evangelistic 
work in this region to the supervision of 
the American Board. At a special 
meeting of the Mission, July tenth, a 
vote was passed apj)roving the removal 
of Rev. O. U. (iulick and family, Rev. 
R. H. Davis and family, and Miss Julia 
Gulick t-o the proposed new station at 
Niigata. Tliest^ plans were submitted 
to the Boanl, and on S<^pteinl)er ninth tho 
cablegram *' Resolute " was received 
from Boston, which resulte<l in the 
formal organization of the North Japan 
Mission of the A merican Boaitl. 

II. — Annals of the Station. (Com- 
piled from station recoi-ds.) 

Mr. and Mi-s. O. H. Gulick, Mr. and 
Mrs. R. H. i:)avis, and Miss JuUa 
Gulick arrived in Niigata Oct. 11, 1883. 

** The missionaries of the Board re- 
ceived a warm welcome from the Chris- 
tian people, a deputatioij of whom met 
them at the custom-house landing. The 
work was fairly begun on the following 
Sabbath, in the observance of the Lord's 
Supp<'r with the resident church mem- 
bers, about thirty in number." (R. H. 
Davis). 

The work tluis auspiciously lx?gun was 
gradually increased until in 1889 Niigata 
l)ecame the second largest station of the ' 
Board in Ja})an, having tiiirteeu mem- 
l)ers, Kyoto being first with twenty-one. 
Even this large force was considered 
inadequate to the needs of the work at 
that high tide of opportunity' for educa- 
tional and evangelistic work in Echipo. 

The first Girls' School in Echigo and 
the IIokuHttsu College for Boys were 
opened in 1887 under Christian manage- 
ment. In view of the estabhshmeut of 
these schools th(; Provincial Government 
voted in 188^< not to open a Middle 
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ing one at Yahiko, twenty-two miles 
distant. Thus these two Christian 
schools became the only medium for 
higher education in all this region. 
Further reinforcements were promised, 
but before they arrived conditions had 
changed, the ebb-tide set in, and the 
Niigata station began to disintegrate. 

The intense nationalistic spirit that 
resulted in more or less of anti-foi-eign 
foelbg thru-out Japan during the early 
nineties was especially strong in Echigo. 
The evangelistic work was crippled and 
opposition to the Christian schools led to 
their dosing in 1898 for lack of support. 
Since Miss Brown left in 1904 there has 
been no representative of the AVoman's 
Board in Niigata and the work for 
women is carried on by the married 
ladies of the station with the help of 
their Bible women. 

Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Curtis, who 
are supported by the First CTiurch of 
Los Angeles, Cal., and Rev. and Mrs. 
E. S. Cobb, who are the representatives 
of the Central Church of Fall River, 
Mass., now constitute the Niigata 
Station. 

III. — Other Missions in Echigo. 
At different times other Missions have 
started work in this vast province but 
almost none of it has been of a per- 
manent character nor continued for more 
than a few years. 

To-day the Presbyterians have Japa- 
nese evangelists in Niigata, Murakami, 
and on the Island of Sado; Japanese 
workers carried on an Independent 
Gospel Mission at Nagaoka last year; 
there are Methodist and Episcopal 
jMtiaching-places at Takata, superintended 
by missionaries from Nagano ; and the 
Canadian Ep'scopal Mission are consider- 
ing the question of the permanent loca- 
tion of a &mily at Nagaoka. 

The is all of the organized Protestant 
work in Echigo. The responsibility for 
the evangelization of the larger part of 
this great province rests with the Ameri- 
can Board Mission and the Kumi-ai 
Cliurches. 



The Work in Nligala. 

The mission work in the city of 
Niigata si of two kinds, organized work 
in chapels and Sunday schools, and the 
personal work of the missionaries in their 
homes. 

1. Mission Chapels. 

There are three kogwho or chapels 
named from their location, Shima, Furu- 
machi, and Gakko Cho, which are quite 
different from those in many other 
stations since they are all feeders to one 
central church, all converts imiting with 
the Niigata Church. There are flourish- 
ing Sunday-schools in each kogisho vAih. 
a total attendance of nearly two hundred 
Shima, is on an island in the lower 
river district, a difficult field but a 
most needy one. It was opened as a 
Sunday-school in the early days of 
mission work in Niigata by some of the 
ladies of the station, and has always been 
considered a part of woman's work, being 
supported by a special grant from the 
Woman's Board. Under Miss Brown's 
care it developed into quite an institu- 
tional work with a resident evangelist and 
various societies and classes for women 
and childi-en, besides the Sunday-school 
and regular preaching services. The large 
rented building is well adapted to such 
work. Saturday evening street-preaching 
is carried on there during the summer 
months, but at present there is no 
resident worker at Shima. Mrs. CHirtis, 
with the assistance of three well-qualified 
teachers, has charge of the Shima Sun- 
day-school which is exerting a marked 
influence upon the children of the neigh- 
borhood. 

Furumachi Cliapel in the heart of the 
dty and on the principal business street 
has a splendid location for reaching all 
classes of people. The special lines of 
work here are street preaching and tract 
distribution. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb have 
the special oversight of this koffisho, and 
membei-s of the Niigata Church often 
assist in the services. At ahnost any 
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Mr. Uyeda. Mr. Manabe. Mr. Hamada. Mb. Yoneyama. 

Mr. and Mrs. Curtis. Mrs. Nakasiiima. Miss Uyemura. 

[Mr. and Mrs. Cobb were absent in Tokyo for language 
study when this picture was taken.] 



>York(3rs or a few strains of organ music 
^vill gather a crowd in fmnt of the chapel 
to listen. There have been times in the 
past when the crowd would quickly 
vanish again, indifferent to the gospel 
message, or by noisy and sometimes 
violent demonstration seek to silence the 
speaker. Yet even in those days some 
seed fell into good ground. In the many 
years that this work has been carried on 
great good has l)een accomplished and 
raucli fruit gathered in. Many young 
men who are active Christians to-day 
trace their conversion to an interest 
aroused by the preaching at Furumachi 
Chapel. The station is fortunate in 
having at present a helper who is 
esj)ecially well quaHfied for this street 
preaching. His strong voice, earnest 
manner, and the compelling interest of 
his message hold large standing audi- 



ences attentive to the very end even on 
cold winter nights. 

A Bible store in charge of a Cliristian 
family living in the chapel adds to its 
usefulness as a center for the Christian 
influence. The large sale of Bibles and 
hymn books (Japanese and English) 
during recent years has been very 
encouraging. 

The third chapel is situated on Gakl'o 
Cho (School Street) not far from the 
homes of the missionaries. The work 
here was started four years ago by Mr. 
and Mrs. Curtis and is similar in 
character to that at Shima. It has been 
supported thus far by contributions 
from personal friends of Mrs. Curtis 
at her home in Clinton, Wisconsin, and 
is known to them as " Tlio George 
Dresser Memorial Cliapel." The Sunday- 
school here is now the largest in the city. 

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2. Peiisonal Work. 

As the Ainericau Board Missionaries 
are the only English speaking foreigners 
in Niigata there is a great demand for 
their services in teaching English. 
Teachers and advanced pupils in the 
higher schools, employees in the Post 
Office, policemen, city and keih officials, 
and especially young men about to 
emigrate to America, are verj' urgent in 
their requests for help in Enghsh con- 
versation. Such teaching is sometimes a 
valuable auxilliary to direct evangelistic 
work and in past years has often been 
engaged in by the missionaries, but with 
the present small force of workers and 
the great pressure of other work, it is 
simply impossible for the men of the 
station to do English teaching. 

The only concession to this demand for 
English is the tea(;hing of EngHsh Bible 
classes by Mr. Curtis. Thru the 
winter months when the usual amount of 
touring is impossible he has had six 
weekly Bible classes. On Monday and 
Tuesday evenuigs two classes of clerks 
from the Post and Telegraph Office; 
Wednesday afternoon a class of Normal 
School students ; and the same evening 
a class made up of teachers of 
English in the various city and govern- 
ment schools. This Bible class has 
continued for several years and has 
covered a large part of the New Testa- 
ment. At present it is making a literary 
study of the Bible, reatling selec- 
tions from the Old Testament. On 
Friday afternoon there are two classes, 
one composed of students from the 
Middle School, and the other a large class 
from the Commercial School. Results 
obtained from these Bible classes justify 
the time and strength given to them. 
Often the Bible lesson is followed by a 
little enquiry meeting and a season of 
tamest prayer. Several of these young 
men have decided definitely for Christ ; 
others arc earnest enquirers. Many of 
them will become teachers of schools in 
the province and exert a strong influence 
for or against Christianity. The future 



evangelization of a whole community 
may largely depend upon decisions 
reached in some of these Bible classes. 
In four different villages in the province 
to-day there are teachers recently 
baptized who say their conversion was 
due, in part at least, to instructic« re- 
ceived in Bible classes w^hile they were 
students. 

Mr. Cobb has been giving all his 
time to the study of the language, and to 
secure the most effective practice in the use 
of Japanese has avoided all English work 
thus far. His work has been mainly in 
preparation fpr future usefulness, but he 
has filled the position of organist in both 
church and ko^i^ho, and realizmg the 
important place music has in the church 
service, has formed classes to teach the 
tunes in the Union Hymnal which are 
new to them. His first class was of 
young men who met in his home, but 
this year he meets with all the yomig 
people of the church for half an hour 
before the weekly prayer meeting to 
rehearse a new hymn to be used the 
following Sunday. Recently too he has 
begun giving brief talks in prayer 
meeting, and will deliver his first sermon 
during the present month. 



The Mothers' Club. 

Mrs. Newell founded a society which 
included the wives of city officials and 
other prominent women of Niigata. Few 
of these were Christians, most of them 
were rather openly opposed to Chris- 
tianity, but came to the foreigner's houSi'> 
for the practical help they got in things 
domestic. With the cooking classes and 
mothers' talks Mrs. Newell introduced 
tactful presentations of Christian truth 
which succeeded in very large mea- 
sure in overcoming prejudice against 
Christianity, while some few of the 
Avomcn became even mildly interes- 
ted. The departui?e of this skilful mis- 
tress of the society was a misfortune 
indeed, and her successor has been able 
to do scarcely anything more than hold 
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•this time the personclle has ahnost 
entirely changal, but Avit^i even two or 
three loyal to the founder's purposes, the 
numl^er of members, a]x)ut twenty, is 
recruited from new officials' wives, and 
there is an earnest attempt rmide to make 
the club amount to something. 

There are two meotings a month : one 
is a cooking lesson, and all come to this 
very readily, taking home in " bento " 
boxes samples of foreign stuff to tickle 
the official palates. The second meeting 
has for its puqwsc the presentation of 
some phase of Christianity ; but as one of 
the regulating committee remarked that 



if Ave had nothing but Christianity the 
women simply would not come at all, we 
introduce other elements. The last 
meeting began mth a dissertation on the 
care of infants, continued with a lecture 
on how to behave at a foreign table, and 
finished with a real pravei^meeting, the 
talk given by the teacher of the mis- 
sionaries. All seemed satisfied that tlieir 
time had not been unprofitably spent. 
Even the grain of mustard seed has its 
coatings, and who shall say those cover- 
ings may not 1x3 called "domestic 
science," if they help to protect and 
plant the seed ? Florence B. Cobb. 




The Niigata Church. 



The Niigata Church. 

Probably no part of Japan can 
furnish climate of a more surprisiner 
variety than the province of Echigo. It 
is noted for its sudden changes, for its 
extremes of heat and cold, its rare days 
of glorious sunshine, and its dark days 
of storm and clouds. Like to this 
changeable climate has been the 
past history of the Niigata Church. 
Periods of prosperity followed by times 
of depression ; prevailing harmony and 
union spoileil by dissension and division ; 



enthusiastic forward movements unrler 
able leadership, then loss of leader and 
discouraging retreat or inaction. Pro- 
bably no church in Japan has had so 
many pastorless years in its histor}^ ; for 
one third of the time since its organization 
in 188G the Niigata Church has lx?en 
without any regular supply, and for more 
than one-half of the time it has been 
looking for a pastor. 

The i^eriod of gi-eatest prosperity ex- 
tended from 1887 to 1898. Then the 
church was crowded every Sunday with 
students from the two Christian schools. 

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Nearly every Communion season saw 
largo additions to the church (seventy-four 
in 1M88). There was a total membership 
of two hundred iii 1891. During a part 
of this time the church was not only self- 
sustaining, but was also responsible for a 
great deal of evangelistic work in the 
province, giving freely for this cause, 
opening kogisho in neighlx)ring towns 
anfl villages, and sending out stu<lent 
<?vangelists to preach the gospel. Then 
came the great blow to the church 
from which it has never fully 
recovered. In 1898 the Christian schools 
Were closed for lack of funds to carry 
them on, the student members left 
Niigata, audiences dwindled. Pastor Hori 
resigned, and finally, thru internal 
dissensions, the church was split in twain. 
A part of the members withdrew in 
February 1894 and established an 
indepcnclent church which has continued 
to hold rq^lar services, tho without 
a pastor except for the first few months. 

During the next decade the Niigata 
Church was obliged to ask for financial 
aid from the Mission. Several bravo 
attempts at self-support ended in more 
<^raplete dependence upon the Mission. 
For two years during this period Mr. 
Newell was the Acting Pastor of tho 
ehurch. In 1903 there was a decided 
rally when under the brief pastorate of 
Mr. Tcraoka the church be^me finan- 
cially indq)endent. But again internal 
dissensions and the removal or with- 
drawal of prominent meml)ers greatly 
reduceil the strength of the church 
auraerically, financially, and spiritually. 

Since I)ecember 1903 (except for the 
fell and winter of 1905) the church has 
been without a pastor. Yet thru all 
of these discouraging times there has 
always l)een a faithful remnant whose 
prayers and earnest efforts have kept the 
ehuVch alive. During the last few years 
regular church services, Sunday-school, 
and prayer-meeting, have been sustained, 
tho deacons and one of the missionaries 
occup}nng the pulpit in turn. Nor has 
the w*ork of thase ])astorless years Ix^en 
entirely unfruitful. Es|jecially of late 



there have l)een an encouraging number 
of additions to tho church on confession 
of faith. 

The Week of Prayer at the beginning 
of the pi*esent year was observed with a 
series of excellent meetings in which the 
throe churches in Niigata united. There 
was an earnest spirit of prayer manifest, 
a great longing for a genuine revival in 
these Niigata churches that should spread 
thru all the province. Ever since 
the AV^eek of Prayer there has been a 
steadily rising tide of interest in all of 
the church sei-vices, and never before in 
the weekly prayer-meeting have I seen a 
more earnest spirit of supplication or a 
more general expectation of a great 
spiritual blessing. 

The interest that tho Sokwai (General 
Conference) manifested in the Echigo 
field, and the efforts of the Tokyo 
brethren to find a pastor for the Niigata 
Church aroused ex]X)ct>ations that were 
bitterly disappointed when the negotia- 
tions for the immediate secuiing of a 
pastor failed. But the new spiritual 
life in the church enabled the people to 
meet the disappointment bravely and to 
determine to do their best, even without 
a pastor, to prepare for the coming Shu- 
chu Dendo (Special Evangehstic) 
Meetings and the Y.M.C.A. Rally to be 
hekl here this spring. AVe believe that 
these meetings will result in great 
blessing to Niigata and be the beginning 
of a new era of growth and prosperity in 
the history cf the Niigata Church. 



Often those who are not Christians 
help to sow the good seed. Some of the 
teachers in the Niigata Schools present 
their pupils Avith Sunday-school cards 
bearing Scripture texts as rewards of 
merit. 



A Young Men's Christian Association 
has recently been organized at Shibata. 
All of our out-stations are now supplied 
with these valuable auxiliaries to the 
work of the church. 

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A Breach in the Waiis. 

One of Ecbigo's numerous strongholds 
in feudal days was the walled town of 
Sanjo on the Shinano River between 
Niigata and Nagaoka. Its walls have 
vanished and only in the name of one 
of its suburbs, Ichi-no-ki'do, (First 
AVooden Gate) is there now any reminder 
of the ancient fortress. 

Nevertheless 8anjo is still a walled 
to>\Ti, — the stronghold of Buddhism in 
this province, and the site of a large, 
newly built branch-temple of the famous 
Higashi Hongwanji of Kyoto. AVith 
triple walls of bigotry, superstition, and 
prejudice the people of Sanjo have tried 
to prevent the entrance of Christian truth. 

At one time we had an evangelist 
stationed at 8anjo, and there was an 
earnest group of Christians mostly of the 
official class. Death and official rotation 
removed them all and the place was 
abandoned as an out-station some seven 
or eight years ago. Kecent attempts to 
open work in Sanjo have failed. Last 
year a missionary of another denomina- 
tion and his lu^lper were reftised lodging 
at exery hotel in the city and wei-e 
obliged to leave by the evening train 
without holding the series of meetings 
they had planned. Later in the year a 
Japanese Bible- woman had the same 
exi)erience. These incidents show some- 
thing of the quality of the opposition to 
]ye encountered in Sanjo. I know of no 
other town in the Ejupijo that would 
refuse lodging for a night to Japanese 
or foreigner simply because he was a 
Christian. 

Last month I miexpectedly o])tained 
entrance to this stronghold of op]:osition 
to Christianity through tlie old gate way 
of Ichlnokido ! As fo often in other 
places the desire for the study of English 
under a foreigner was the key that un- 
locked the door. A young man living 
near Ichinokido station came to me in 
Niigata Avith the familiar i-equest that I 
teach lum English. 

I explained that I could not spare 
time for the teaching of English only, 



but gave him permission to enter one of 
my English Bible classes for Niigata 
students. He then asked if it would 
not be possible for me to teach a class 
at Sanjo at least once a month. Seeing 
in this request a possible opening for 
further evangelistic work in that city I 
told him if he would organize a class for 
Bible study I would teach it, stopping off 
for that purpose between trains when my 
touring led me to pass thru Sanjo. 

On my first visit when I stepped fmni 
the train at Ichinokido I was met by ten 
young men, for the most part students 
of the Sanjo Middle School. At the 
home of one of their number we spent 
more than an hour in Bible study using 
alternately the Japanese and English 
texts with which they had provided 
themselves from our Niigata Bible store. 
Tliat these young men desired religious 
instruction as well as help in their study 
of English was evident from their ques- 
tions, and from the fact that they pre- 
ferred explanations in Jai}anese, and of 
their oan-u accord requested that I close 
the lesson Avith prayer. 

I was given a good supjoer and cordial- 
ly invited to spend the night, so even 
tho hotel doors may be closed against me 
a place of entertJiinment in Sanjo has 
l^een providentially provided. That night 
however it was necessary that I go on to 
Nagaoka and I was again accompanied 
to the station by the whole class. In- 
.stead of givuig the usual presents that 
burden one with a sense of obligation, 
these young men showed a pleasing tact 
and courtesy in hanchng me some money 
enclosed in an envelope which was in- 
scribed, — " For ihe iiwk of the niigata 
C/iKTch, from the Sanjo Young Men's 
Bible Cla^i^:' W. L. Curtis. 



The Presbyterian Church of !Niigat4i 
has leased for ten years a comer of the 
Y. M. C. A. lot on which they are 
buiMing a new church to be completed in 
May. This will not interfere with the 
erection of a Y. M. C. A. Hall on the 
same lot when the time for such a build- 



in" comes. 



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Out-stations. 

There are now but three places out- 
side of Niigata where we have evangel- 
ists under the employ of the Mission, 
viz., 8hil)ata, Nagaoka, and Kashiwa- 
zaki. But from the very beginning of 
the Mission's work in Echigo until 
January of last year Nakajo, a town of 
more than four thousand inhabitants, 
thirty miles north-east of Niigata, was 
one of our most important out-stations. 
Having now been passed over to the 
care of the Japan Home Missionar}'^ 
Society, we no longer report it as a part 
of our work, but we still respond to calls 
for the administering of the Communion 
or the baptizing of converts, and oc- 
casionally accompany the Nakajo evan- 
gelist on a tour thru that region. 
The Nakajo Church dates from the 
time of Dr. Palm's work in Echigo, 
and was the first organized church in 
the province. Like the Niigata Church, it 
has had a checkered career ; there have 
been times of great activity and long 
periods of repose, repose so profound that 
more than once it seemed the sleep of 
death. 

"When Mr. Higuchi began work there 
in 1900 there was at fir^t many a Sun- 
day when his wife was the f)nJy person 
in the audience ! But before he left 
Nakajo in 1904 to take up a larger 
work in Hawaii, where so many Echigo 
people have gone, he had awakened the 
sleeping church to new life, and had 
exerted a lasting influence for good 
upon the whole community. Jn Mr. 
Hamada, the present evangelist, we 
found a woithy successor to Mr. Higuchi ; 
stimulat(?d by his earnest preaching and 
his self-sacrificing labojs, the Nakajo 
Church has made steady prognj-s. In- 
stead of the diminutive chaju^l that frr a 
quarter of a century S(»ived as meeting- 
house, th(y have now a commodious build- 
ing, church and parsonage In one, that is 
well adapted to the needs of the work. 
This new church home was dedicated last 
April. 

Mr. Hamada holds services at Kuio- 



kawa, gome two miles from Nakajo, and 
at Seki, fourteen miles distant. Tlio 
work at Seki is especially interesting. In 
December last I visited this place and 
found a group of seven or eight earnest 
enquirers who will soon be I'cady to 
receive baptism. 

Shibaia, — This large garrison town 's 
a strategic center for evangelistic work in 
the northern part of our field. In its 
long history as an out-station, the period 
covered by Evangelist Hara's labors 
(1887-1893) was the most prosperous. 
The records show the names of sixty-five 
members added during those seven fruit- 
ful years. Then followed seven years 
of famine ! By removal to other places, 
by dismission to other churches, and by 
death, spiritual or physical, the number 
of Christians was reduced to a mere 
handful. But last year this little group 
of believers determined to rise and build 
them a house of worship, for it was felt 
that one great hindrance to growth was 
the lack of a church building. It was a 
great undertaking, but they were streng 
in the faith that it could l)e done, and 
they proved their faith by their works. 
With courageous self sacrifice thcty gave 
freely and worked hard to raise the 
necessary funds. With the grant of 
one hundred yen from the Mission's 
Church Building Association, and some 
extra help from former and present 
workers in the Niigata field (both Japa- 
nese and foreign) they succeeded in 
purchasing the land and a building 
which was enlarged and remodeled into u 
convenient church e<lifice well suited to 
the needs of the community^ 

November I], 1900 (the Emperor's 
birthday) was truly a red-letter day to 
the ShibaUi Christians, for on that day 
they dedicated their new building free 
fiom debt. Dr. Petee, who was making 
a tonr of Echigo at that time, preached 
the dedicatory seimon. All of i\w 
workers in the field weie present and 
shaied In the joy cf tlie occasion, and 
nssistid in the special preaching s<^rviees 
tliat followed. Many htters and tele- 
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members and workers Avere read. One 
from the sick-bed of Evangelist Hara, 
accompmied by a gift of five yen, was 
08])eciaUy appreciated and called forth 
tender reminiscences of those years of 
faithful toil in which he practically gave 
his life for this work. 

The new building lias already proved 
a great help to the work at Shilmta. 
Increased audiences and one of the 
larjj^est Sunday-schools in the province, 
are a direct result. The lot that was 
purchased is large enough to allow the 
building of an addition to the church, 
which would provide a parsonage, a 
prnyor-meeting room, and when necessary 
an enlargement of the audience ix)om. 
Such an adclition is already a pressing 
need. 

Nagaoka, the second city of the 
province in size, in material wealth, and 
in educational advantages, is situated on 
tlio railway and at the head of naviga- 
tion on the Shinano River. It is the 
geographical center of the oil producing 
region, and having unusual transporta- 
tion facilities, and an abundant supply 
of natui-al gas and electric power, it is 
destined to become an important manu- 
facturing center. Within a radius of 
thirty miles are scores of towns and 
villages, which makes Nsigaoka our 
most im]X)rtant out-station and touring 
center. The people of Nagaoka are 
exceedingly conservative. The Buddhist 
element is strong and at times considera- 
ble opposition to Christ'anity has deve- 
loped; hence the growth of our work 
here has been slow. 

Rev. 0. ir. Gulick, in the Annual 
Report for 1884, speaking of the removal 
of five Christians from Niigata to Xaga- 
oka, says : " Only those who have 
struggled long to gain the first foot- 
hold in an obdurate heathen city, 
can fully appreciate the value we place 
upon the entrance of the first half a 
dozen Christians into this flourishing, 
pixHid place. Continuous seed sowing 
on the part of the lal)orers seems now to 
bo the only requisite for insuring a 
future harvest." 



This "continuous seed sowing" has 
been well done by many faithful sowers. 
Mr. Yoneyama, the present evangelist, 
will complete ten years of service in the 
Nagaoka field in June, 1908. He is 
now beginning to see the fruit of his 
labors. He has won the respect of the 
people and is a recognized power for 
good in the community. This influence 
is felt thru a large numl)er of neigh- 
bouring towns and villages that he 
has visited. Mr. Yoneyama says : 
** Last year was the most successful 
evangelistic experience of ray life." 

Largely attended preaching services ; 
a Sunday-school that fills to overflowing 
the little chapel ; a flourishing Y.M.C. A. 
from whose membership come many- 
additions to the church; many new 
villages opened to the gospel during the 
past year; three new Sunday- schools 
held in village school-houses and taught 
by the principals of those schools ! Best 
of all many earnest enquirei's and thirty- 
one baptisms during 1906. Such is the 
i*ecord in part of what has recently been 
accomphshed. The prospect for the 
coming year is even more hopeful. 

Kaslimazaki, — In early days a sleepy 
fishing village, now a busy, wide awake, 
growing to>vn of more than ten thousand 
inhabitants. Its new name, the " Oil 
City " of Echigo, explains its sudden 
prosperity. Beifore the coming of the 
railroad and the oil refineries, Kashi^va- 
zaki became an out-station of the Xiigata 
mission work. In 1890 Mr. Manabc, now 
of Shibata, began working here as evan- 
gelist. It was a diflicult field and but 
little progress was made for many years. 
At the end of ten years there were about 
ten resident Christians. There are still less 
than a dozen members, but conditions 
have changed and the Christian chapel, 
well located on the main business street, 
is making its presence felt as a power 
for good in the community. The evange- 
list, Mr. Uyeda, is meeting with much 
encouragement. Especially helpful in 
removing prejudice and gaining a hear- 
ing for Christianity has been his fre- 
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Kashiwazaki papers freely open their 
oolumns to anything he wishes to con- 
tribute. This fomi of imparting Chris- 
tian truth has doubtless been more 
effective among the educated classes 
than the public preaching of the Word. 
Yet it is also true that in no other place 
ID the province can larger or more 
attentive audiences be gathered at special 
Oiristian meetings than here in Kashi- 
irazaki. The Superintendent of the 
Japan Oil Company's refinery at Kashi- 
wazaki, Mr. S. Takano, was one of the 
early graduates of the Christian School at 
Niigata. His personal influence and 
public addresses are a great help to our 
diurch in Kashiwazaki, of which he is a 
member. Mr. K. Ito, the Japanese 
manager of the Standard Oil Company's 
refinery at Naoetsu, is also one of our 
Kurai-ai CTiiistians. He contributes to 
our Kashiwazaki work and pays the 
caq)en.ses of Mr. ITyeda's monthly trip 
to Naoetsu, where two meetings are held 
in his house. Mr. Ito is an earnest 
temperance advocate and has done much 
for this cause in Naoetsu and at Kashi- 
wazaki by organizing Temperance So- 
dcties. 

William L. CVrtis. 



Touring in Echigo. 

When I first went to Echigo, the 
whole country north of Naoetsu was with- 
out a railroad. Fortunately however ^m- * 
rxkislia were cheap and plenty of them. 
Marvelous tales are told of the long 
distances covered by famous runners, 
one man in particular having to his 
record the entire distance between Naoetsu 
and Nagaoka — fifty-three miles, in nine 
hours. Then there were the river boats 
plying between Nagaoka and Niigata — 
forty-five miles, the down trip taking six, 
and the up trip nine hours, the time l)eing 
very much extended in say seven days 
Ofut of six! There were other water- 
ways also with other and smaller and 
meaner boats. The Kuzuzuka flyer 
that with the help of poles could make 



from three miles an hour up ; the Kamc- 
da express that made good time when 
the water was high and the bridges not , 
too low ; and last of all the famous 
Watatsu Maru that ambled along between 
Naoetsu and Niigata, and furnished 
more misery to the square inch for the 
passengers, than almost any other instru- 
ment of man's invention. 

Besides the boats and jinrildsha, there 
were sleds in winter, later on, bicycles in 
summer, and all the time there was the 
privilege of walking, either in shoes, 
rublier boots, or sandals. 

I have availed myself of all of these, 
and it is hard to say which is best. 
Each has its compensations to the man 
who has entered into the spirit of touring. 

It was on these trips that I picked up 
a great deal of the language at my dis^wsal 
now. 'Twas no easy task in the early 
days, to squat for hours on one's haunch- 
es, surrounded by a confused jargon of 
sounds that were well-nigh meaningless. 
But each succeeding trip was easier than 
the one before, and a backward look at 
this time causes one to reflect that the 
aching head, cramjxid limbs, and general 
weariness were simply the current prices 
to pay for a partial solution of that rid- 
dle of riddles^ — the Japanese Language. 

But the best thing about such trips was 
the opportunity to touch closely the life 
and thought and manners of the people 
that at first seemed so strange. The 
value of kindness, sjinpathy, and straight- 
fonvard dealing became increasingly ap- 
parent, as the sorrows, perplexities, and 
sins of each community came into view. 

Eleven years in Echigo have left the 
impression of a great country, with a 
teeming population of more than ordinary 
possibilities. The women are said to be 
fairer than most of their sisters elsewhere, 
and therefore naturally fitted to enrich 
the home rather than the brothel, to 
which too many of them go. The men 
are patient, long-suflToring, and in- 
dustrious. Their sons are well to the 
front among those who emigrate to other 
lands, and send their hard-earned savings 
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rich and most of it easy of cultivation. 
The great lack is the knowledge of God 
and his Son Jesus Christ. When that 
knowledge shall have taken possession of 
this people, the Gospel will have a new 
opportunity of showing its iK)wcr and its 
glory. 

We join with our fellow workers in 
Niigata in the prayer that a suitable 
pastor may be found for the church 
there; that additional men for out- 
stations may be found ; and above all 
that the spirit of life and love and power 
may be poured out in abundant measure 
upon all who, throughout the Province, 
either have believed in or are seeking to 
believe in God. 

H. Pedlev. 



Missionaries do not often require the 
services of policemen but it is pleasant to 
know that in many places in Echigo the 
touring missionary is sure to be cordially 
greeted by local police officers eager to 
do him a favor. This friendly attitude 
of the police sho>vs their appreciation of 
what the missionaries did for them while 
they were in the Niigata Police Training 
School. Mr. Pedley was for a time a 
regular teacher of Engll«<h in this 
school. Mrs. Newell later had large 
classes of policemen in English and 
Bible study. Mr. Curtis Imd a number 
of })olicemen in one of his Bible classes 
duruig the fall and early winter, but 
they have noAV been assigntnl to duty in 
various parts of the province. 



" Darkest Echigo." 

In two respects Echigo has a most 
unenviable reputation throughout Japan. 
Its climate is popularly supposed to be 
extremely disagreeable, and the moral 
standards of its j)eople exce<3<lingly low. 

We who liave s^KJiit years in the 
province would not draw so dark a 
picture of its climate as do those who 
speak only from hearsay or from the 
briefest of experience ; but tlie moral 



darkness of Echigo is only too plainly 
evident. 

It is well known tliat the phrase 
"Echigo women" is a by-word in the 
land. Yet the fact that they are sold in 
great numbers to supply the brothels of 
Tokyo, and are found living a life of 
shame in nearly every city of Japao, 
and in the coast cities of Siberia, Korea, 
and China, is not so much a reflection 
upon the character of the women of 
Echigo as upon tliat of the men who 
take pride in their country's shame and 
for pecimiary profit encourage this hor- 
rible traffic. 

Police records show that procurers 
from Tokyo bought in one year 804 
girls from Niigata city, and fiom the 
whole province 5,628 girls for the sum 
of 742,111 yeii. In Echigo girl-ljabies 
are more welcome than elsewhere in 
Japan on account of the high prices they 
will bring. The life of a geUha and even 
that of a prostitute is held up as an 
ideal in many families among the lower 
classes. *' If you are not good we will 
not let you Ije a geisha " is a common 
threat of these i)arents to their little 
girls. 

Echigo was exceedingly slow in pro- 
viding for the higher education of women. 
Tliere were no high schools for girls 
until al)Out eight years ago. Now there 
are five in the pix)vince and all are 
crowded with pupils. With higher edu- 
cation for women there >vill come higher 
ideals of womanhood that will gradually 
permeate all classes. But the greater 
need is for Christian ideals of true 
manhood and womanhood, of personal 
purity, of the sanctity of marriage, and 
of parental responsibility for the right 
training of children. Christian homes 
will do more than high schools to save 
the women of Echigo, and the light cf 
the gosjKjl more than the light of know- 
ledge to disi^el the dark cloud that now 
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Work for Women in Echigo. 

Woman's work for women in Ecliigo 
may be divided into three classes, viz.; 

I. — Work centering in the mission- 
aries' homes. 

II. — Organized work in Niigata. 

III. — Touring or work for women in 
the out-stations. 

I. — Besides various English classes 
and a large class of music pupils, there 
are four societies which meet regularly 
each week at the writer's home. 

The first is a society of King's 
Daughters, organized Hve years ago, now 
numbering twenty members. From this 
society eleven young women have already 
received l)aptism and united with the 
church. A nucleus of earnest Christian 
girls, and a library of Christian books, 
have done more, aside from the Spirit of 
God, in learling these girls to Christ than 
any other means. A prayer meeting is 
held each week and a C. E. consecration 
meeting once a month. Once every 
month too, these girls attend the fujin- 
hmt or Woman's meeting. 

The second society is a Sunshine Band 
of fifteen girls, organized four yca^^ ago. 



These girls are now nearly all in the 
High School. AVithin the last year 
they have begun to lead their own 
meetings, taking pait in prayer, and a 
large number of them are now Chris- 
tians. Christian books are read to tlienj, 
chapter by chapter, by my Bible woman 
at each meeting. 

The third society is called the Pure 
Heart Society, organized last year with a 
membership of over twenty Uttle girls. 
A lesson in crocheting is the special 
attraction, but the last half of the meeting 
is opened with devotional exercises, and 
interesting Christian stories are read to 
them. 

All these societies draw the girls into 
Sunday-school, and the oldest society 
into church attendance and church mem- 
bership. Mite boxes in all of these 
societies are opened at Christmas time, 
and the contents spent for some benevo- 
lent object. 

II. — ^The first regular Woman's So- 
ciety in Niigata was organized about 
twelve years ago by Miss Clara Bivwii, 
now Mrs. Nagasaka, altho fre<|uent 
meetings for women had l)een held for 
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jinhim is a union society of the three Nii- 
gata churches, and meetings are held 
regularly once a month, from house to 
house, opening with devotional exerciser, 
followed by a Christian talk, and later 
a social hour. The membership Is over 
thirty, the attendance good. A small 
monthly membership fee provides re- 
freshments for each meeting, and the 
balance on hand at the end of the year 
is given to some benevolent object. 

A Mothers' Meeting was started by 
Mrs. Newell four years ago, and is now 
carried on by Mi*s. Cobb. Beades this 
work, much calling is done lx)th by the 
missionaries and the three Bible women, 
one of whom gives all her afternoons to 
this work. 

The tliree Mission Sunday-schools in 
Niigata may rightly l)e included in 
woman's work. Tlie Bible women and 
two of our King's Daughters are helpmg 
us in this work. The attendance and 
general order in these Sunday-schools 
was never better than now ; two of them 
are located in the poorest parts of the 
city and reach the most needy class of 
children. 

Tliere is one very interesting line of 
work carried on here in the city by one 
of tlie Chnstian women, viz., a night- 
school for poor girls. Tliis woman began 
the work three years ago, opening her 
own house for the school, and she herself 
te^ies sewing. Two school-teachers 
give their ser\'ices one evening each 
week, teaching the girls reading and 
arithmetic, and the missionary and her 
Bible woman have gone one evening 
a week for teaching crocheting, a Bible 
lesson, and the sin^g of Christian 
hymns. The attendance has averaged 
about twenty-five, but recently the school 
has increased in size, a larger house has 
l>een rented, and efforts made to raise 
funds by securing sustaining members at 
ten sen a month. The ages of the girls 
range from ten to twenty years; all 
work thru the day, many being employed 
in a match factory. We believe this to 
be one of the best means for solving the 
terrible problem Ijefore us in Echigo,- 



how to save poor girls from a life of 
shame. 

III. — Visiting the four out-stations for 
the purpose of holding meetings for 
Avomen was done for many years by 
Mias Cozad, Miss Clara brown, aiul 
Miss Swartz. Two tours a year were 
made, one in the fall and the other in 
the spring. In the early days these 
meetings were often small and the work 
discouraging, it was so hard to get the 
women to come out to any meeting. 
Four years ago the evangelist in Kashi- 
wazaki invited Mrs. Newell and her 
Bible woman to open a monthly fujiti- 
kwai there, which from the first proved 
a successful. On Mrs. Newel I's removal 
to Matsuyama three years ago, the 
writer was I'equested to take up this 
work, which she did with the help of a 
Bible woman. On our first trip we 
stopped off at Nagaoka for a meeting 
with the Christian women, which resulted 
in an invitation to begin a monthly 
fujinknm there also. These meetings, 
small at first, have grown steadily in 
numbers and interest. At Kashiwazaki 
we often have thirty or more in atten- 
dance. The great need at the beginning 
was for organs, hymn books, Bibles, and 
a library of Cliristian books. All these 
needs have been supplied. A year later 
a monthly fiijitikitm >vas opened in 
Shil)ata, the missionary and her Bible 
woman going regularly except thru the 
winter months when the snow makes 
the roads impassible. Twice a year 
these trips are extended to Nakajo, 
where large and enthusiastic meetings 
have been held, chiefly due to the very 
efficient work of the pastor's wife, who 
has hitherto held woman's meetings 
thei-e at irregular intervals, but now 
feels the time has come for r^ular 
organized work in Nakajo. 

In each of those four out-stations 
flourishing Sunday-schools are carried 
on, in Kashiwazaki and Shibata largely 
thru the efforts of our Christian women. 
One of the most encouraging things we 
have met with in the work is the very 
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women in the out-stations labor for the 
growth and success of their woman's 
meetings. 

The Woman's Union Day of Prayer 
in May is observed each year here in 
Niigata. For the past two years dele- 
gates have come from all of our ou^ 
stations. Last yeai ten of them came 
for the all-day meeting, which was 
largely attended by Presbyterian and 
Kumi-ai Christians. The morning was 
given up to a prayer meeting, and an 
address by the Presbjrterian pastor ; the 
afternoon to reports from the various 
women's societies. These meetings are a 
great help in our work, deepening and 
broadening the spiritual life of the 
women. 

Gertrude B. Curtis. 



The Story of Sanashi. 

The story of Sanashi is the story of 
Tetsuji Sakurai, who for many years has 
been the school teacher at Sanashi, a 
village of one himdrcxl and forty houses 
in North Uonuma county, about thirty 
miles from Nagaoka. He first came 
into contact with Christianity at Niigata 
while studying in the Hoku-shin Gakko, 
a private school in which Mr. Newell 
was teaching at that time. He began 
the study of the English Bible for the 
sake of the language, but with an 
avowed opposition to its teaching ; never- 
theless it was the reading of that Bible 
in after years more than anything else 
tliat finally brought him to believe in 
Clirist I have seen that old English 
Bible, and by the marking of its pages 
one can almost trace the progress of his 
faith. 

In the fall of 1905 he came to 
Nagaoka and reoeive^l baptism, return- 
ing immediately to Sanashi, where he is 
related by blood or marriage ties to half 
of the village, and as principal of the 
sehool commands the profound respect of 
the whole community. His position gave 
him a imique opportunity for influencing 
the pec^lo, and he at once began to teach 



them of God the Father. It is often 
very diflScult for a Japanese Cliristian to 
speak to his near relatives on the subject 
of religion. The circumstances relating 
to the conversion of Mr. Sakurai's Avife 
seem to indicate a special leading of the 
Holy Spirit. 

According to village school custom 
Mr. Sakurai lives alone at the school- 
house, and so is seldom at home except 
on Sundays and holidays; his little 
children, however, are continually run- 
ning back and forth between the home and 
school. One day the mother overheard 
their seven year old boy use the expres- 
sion, " Ten no Chichi" (£he Father in 
Heaven), and asked him what he meant 
by it and where he had learned the 
phrase. He replied, " Oh, Paj^a often 
speaks of the Heavenly Father and talks 
to Him toa" The mother, whose heart 
had been prepared by the chance reading 
of IchijihUf a Cliristian novel, sat down 
and wrote a letter to her husband telling 
him she wished to know more about the 
Father in Heaven, and asked him to 
teach her. 

Last June I made my firet visit to 
Sanashi in response to Mr. Sakurai's 
request that I come and baptize his wife 
and children and a young man of the 
village whom he had been instrumental 
in leading to Christ. I was entertained 
at Mr. Sakurai's home and found there 
an exceedingly interesting family. Be- 
sides Mr. Sakurai, his wife and four 
children, there were his father and 
mother, and his grandfather and 
grandmother, four generations living 
together in the home that had belonged 
to the family for three hundred years. 
"When I paid my respects to the great- 
grandfather of the children, he greeted 
me cordially and then naively remarked, 
" AVhen I was young they used to cut off 
the heads of foreigners or drive them 
from the country, and now I am enter- 
taining one under my own roof! How 
the times have changed ! " 

I was the first foreigner ever seen in 
Sanashi and was most kindly treated by 
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had that afternoon and evenmg. The 
first was the baptismal service, when like 
a dutiful son Mr. Sakurai first asked and 
received the formal consent of his father 
to the baptism of his little children. 
Then came the first celebration of the 
Lord's Supper in Sanashi, followed later 
in the evening by a preaching seivice at 
which twenty-five of the friends and 
neighbors were gathered. 

When I went again in September 
there were eight baptisms including Mr. 
Sakurai's brother and his family. One 
hundred }xx)ple gathered on this occasion 
for the preaching service, and after 
listening quietly to two long sermons, 
many stayed on for another hour to ask 
questions that showed how deeply their 
interest had been aroused. 

Again in November we took Dr* 
Pettee to see this interesting work, and 
ho baptized another family, father, 
mother, and child, the mother being a 
sister of Mrs. Sakurai. And so by 
individuals and by families the people of 
Sanashi are being saved, largely thru 
the example and influence of the school 
teacher, Tetsuji Sakurai. His father is 
now earnestly studying tJie Bible and 
oven the old grandfather has expressed 
his desire for a Christian funeral when 
he dies — a difficult decision to make for 
oile who has been a Buddhist for more 
than eighty years. 

The Christians at Sanashi have start- 
ed a Sunday-school for their children and 
meet together every Sunday night for 
prayer and study of the Bible. For the 
sake of reaching as many of the people 
as possible, their meetings are lield at 
opposite ends of the village on alternate 
Sundays. Mr. Yoneyama, the Nagaoka 
evangelist, visits them once a month 
when the roads are open. 

Sanashi is now cut off from the outside 
world, buried under the ^vinter shows that 
fall in that mountain valley to the depth 
of twenty feet, and last for six months of 
the year. But when June comes roimd 
again and we are permitted to visit them 
once more, we exi)ect to find still others 
ready to receive Christian baptism, for 



this is but the first chapt^jr of the story 
of Sanashi. 

W. L. Curtis. 



Seed Time and Harvest. 

In the fields of Japan where two and 
sometimes three or four crops are pro- 
duced m a year, we often see seeduig and 
harvestmg going on at the same time. 
On missionary fields it is always seed 
time, and at the present time in Japan, 
thank God, it is always harvest. 

This is especially true of Echigo. We 
are reaping to-day whei-e we have not 
so^vn. For more than thirty years 
" other men have labored " here and 
now we have " entered into their labors." 
As we " lift up our eyes and look on the 
fields white to the harvest," our hearts 
are filled with both joy and trembling — 
joy at the prospect, but fear lest for lack 
of workers the har\'est be not fuWy 
gathered in. "The har\'^est truly is 
plenteous, but the laborers are few." 
Oh, so few ! 

For the gathering of the harvest in 
Echigo, one of the greatest evangelistic 
fields in our mission, there are but the 
two families at Niigata, foiu- evangelists, 
and three Bible women, a force utterly 
inadequate to the needs of the field. If 
we should include all of the Protestant 
workers of all denominations, Japanese 
and foreign, men and women, there 
would still be but one CTiristian worker 
for every 100,000 souls 'in Echigo. 
There are not laborers enough to reap 
the harvest fields, that is, the places 
where work is now being successfully 
carried on. Still more are needed for 
plowing and seed sowing. There are 
vast fields of virgin ground in Echigo 
where as yet no seed has been sown. 
Half of the counties of the province have 
not yet been entered. There are many 
fields once occupied that for lack of 
workers have for years been lying fallow. 

This is one of the sad features of our 
work here in Echigo. Not only has the 
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reitrenchraent has driven workers from 
the field and lack of necessary funds 
prevents us from calling more. This 
accounts for the large amount of fallow 
ground. A dozen towns ranging from 
one thousand to five thousand in popula- 
tion which were once occupied as out- 
Ftations or as places regularly visited, 
have now for a long time been unvisited. 
Some of these fields have lain so long 
fallow that briers and thistles cover the 
ground, and there is no sign of fruit- 
fuhiess. In others fertile spota remain 
that would quickly respond to cultiva- 
tion. There are individuals or little 
groups of Christians in some of these 
abandoned fields who are calling for help. 
That some have died a spiritual death is 
not strange. That so many have kept 
alive their faith under such discouraging 
circumstances is a cause for thankfulness. 
How to reach them and help them is one 
of our great problems. 

(jo^en was once a most hopeful out- 
station with a preaching-place, a resident 
evangelist, and more than thirty mem- 
bers. Now for several years the little 
handful of Christians there have had no 
services, and we can visit them but about 
once a year. 

Sanjoy once a flourishing out-station, 
has been abandoned for many yeare. 
The present providential opening for a 
new work in Sanjo is mentioned else- 
where. 

Calling attention to the need of CTiris- 
tian work in another of these towns, a 
man who was not a Christian published 
last year the followmg remarkable ad- 
vertisement in one of the Nagaoka 
papers : — 

Wanted Chridian Teaching, 

**It is a pity that the large town 
of Yoita should have but one resident 
Christian. If an evangehst will come 
and hold meetings here I will guarantee 
him an audience." 

In the Annual Report for 1888 we read 
that Christians in Ojiya and Tochio were 
calling for help, lliey are still calling. 
In the former place a Presbyterian 



femily have recently opened their house 
for meetings when our evangelist from 
Nagaoka visits the place once a month. 
If our mission could have continued work 
at Tochio thru all these years we might 
to-day see the people of that city building 
a house for the worship of God instead 
of the great Tenrikyo temple that they 
have begun. 

Kutsuzuka is another place where work 
was once carried on. Sixteen years ago 
I visited Kutsuzuka and began to speak 
to a large audience at the hotel, but was 
stopped by the police because I had not 
obtained a permit. I have never been 
there since, but have often wished to go 
back and finish my talk now that 
passports and special permits are no 
longer necessary for preaching the gospel. 

We long to bi-eak up the fallow 
gix)und and sow the seed once more in 
these fields on which so much labor was 
bestowed in years gone by. But to do 
this, to adequately care for the work in 
hand and to enter the many waiting 
fields where no work has been done, we 
must have more money for touring 
purposes, more evangelists and Bible- 
women, and if possible further missionary 
reinforcements. One of our greatest 
present needs is for a lady missionary to 
devote her whole time to work for women 
and children. 

W. L. Curtis. 



Among those who attend a Bible 
Class for women at Nakajo is the wife of 
a local physician formerly noted for her 
ill-temper, at least, her husband says so. 
He was once violently opposed to Chris- 
tianity but surprised at the wonderful 
change in his wife since her conversion 
his attitude has entirely changed and he 
is now a regular contributor to the sup- 
port of the church. The wife finds 
frequent opportunity for Christian work 
in speaking to the patients that come for 
medical treatment, telling them of what 
Christ has done for her and urging them 
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An abundaDt supply of natural gas 
has been discovered near Nagaoka. The 
o>vner of these gas wells is planning to 
supply neighboring towns with gas for 
Ughting, heating, and manufacturing 
purposes, and is even talking of piping it 
as mr as Tokyo. AVe wish him abun- 
dant success in the undertaking 

Altho not a Christian he is becombg 
deeply mterested and his wife too is an 
earnest enquirer. He recently purchased 
fifteen Bibles and gave them to his 
employees with the request that they 
study them. At Christmas time he told 
the CTiristians to put their little chapel 
into good repair and send the bill to him, 
and donated five yeii for their Christmas 
entertainment. He has intimated to 
our evangelist at Nagaoka that he will 
be glad to contribute largely to the fund 
for a new church-building if his gas enter- 
prise proves a success. 

H* 'f* 'J* '1' 

Through the Rev. J. L. Fowle of 
Cesarea, Turkey, some Armenian Chris- 
tians of that country have become in- 
terested in the evangehzation of Japan, 
and have contributed ten dollars for use 
in purchasing Bibles for non-Christian 
Japanese. If those who have oppor- 
tunity to use such funds will apply to 
Miss Charlotte DeForest, Kobe Col- 
lege, Yamaraoto Doii, 4 chome, Kobe, 
money will bo gladly fuinishal until the 
sum is exhausted. 

* * * * 

Rev. Mr. Takahashi, a teacher in the 
Kobe Bible School and until recently 
jjastor of the Akashi church, is planning 
to give his time to aid pastors where 
especial evangelistic work has brought 
many into the church who need instruc- 
tion, that the impressions made be not 
transient. In ordei' to help cover his 
expenses he proposes publishing a month- 
ly magazine of Bible Study. The first 
copy is to ]jo issued in March. It will 
sell for ^\Q sen a copy, or sixty sen a 
year. 



Died, Febrcwry 5th, 1907, at his home in 
Niigata, Shigeta'Kimurii,aged 47,— for more 
than sixteen years a member and for several 
years a deacon of the Niipata Church. 

Mr. Kimnra was a skilled carpenter and 
cabinet-maker, builder of the Mission Houses 
in Niigata and a contractor for various 
public works. He was always a gocd frieixl 
to the missionaries,— a man upon whose 
judgement we could rely and whose ex- 
perience, technical skill, and inventive genius 
were invaluable. His death is almost a na- 
tional loss fur as a cabinet-maker he bad few 
equals in the country. His patent folding- 
rockers and camp-chairs are a feature of the 
summer homes at Karuizawa and bis tables, 
chairs, and roll-top desks are found in many 
a missionary's home thru-out Japan. 

His finest piece of work, a large octagonal 
cabinet or book-stand, was exhibited at the 
World's Fair at Chicago and afterwards 
brought back to Japan and presented to the 
Emperor. Its eight panels representing the 
various stages oi rice cultivation were re- 
markable specimens of word-carving execut- 
ed by Mr. Kimura's aged father who died 
several years ago. 

Toltori Hems. 

The Orphan Asylum took in five new 
children last month, making a total of 
twenty-seven. It has not only new inmates, 
but new obstacles to meet, for the establish- 
ment last month at Kurayoshi of a new- 
orphanage, the Impaku Kojiin, under the 
united patronage of all the Buddhist 
priests of this part of the country, threatens 
to draw away some of the supporters of the 
Christian Orphanage. As a first result of the 
priests' activity last month, four or tye of 
the contributors to the Tottori Orphans^ 
withdrew their support. But Mr. feaito, m 
charge of the Orphanage, is of good cheer. 
He says that the Okayama and the Matsue 
Orphanages had similar experiences in tbeir 
early days, and since it is God's work, and 
not his own, he feels that he can trust for the 
future. 

The new preaching place, barely three 
months oM, has a Sunday School, an even- 
ing preaching service, and three Bible 
classes a week. Bible ^ales are good, and 
students from that part of the city have 
joined the Zion Society and come to the 
missionaries for religious talks. Hearing 
the children in that neighborhood shout 
" Amen " at one on the street is a proof that 
the preaching-place is making itself known; 
and moreover such an experience affords an 
excellent starting-point for explaining to 
callers the real meaning of the word. 

p;>B. Deforest. 

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REPORT OF MISSION MEETING. 



The annual meeting of the American Board Mission in Japan, 
which was opened in Arima on the twenty-third of last month, was 
the best, most interesting, and one of the most important that has 
been held for a number of years. For these reasons it is the more to be 
regretted that only forty-seven voting members of the mission were 
present and some six or seven of these had to leave before the close of 
the meeting. 

Some of the factors contributing to the great success and importance 
of the meeting were the presence of Secretaries Creegan and Hitchcock 
fresh fix)m their visits to the mission fields of Turkey, India, China, and 
CJorea ; the presence of delegates from the United Brethren and Meth6- 
dist Protestant Missions ; the inspiring report from President Harada of 
Doshisha and the request which he brought to the mission ; the addresses 
of Drs. Greene and Gulick ; the discussion and action concerning the 
increase of missionary work in Japan ; and practically perfect weather 
thru-out the enture meeting. All these factors combined to make the 
meeting an exceptionally interesting and important one. 

The meeting was opened Thm-sday evening with a half 
Openiof Session, hour devotional service followed by brief reports from 

most of the standing oflBcers and committees. 

After brief reports from two of the stations and the 
*^^^Sw3oiiI^"* reading of the minutes of the evenmg session Dr. 

Pettee was called to the chair. Secretaries Creegan 
and Hitchcock, President Harada of Doshisha, Messrs. Murphy and 
Peery of the Methodist Protestant Mission and Messrs. Howard and 
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Following this vote Dr. Pettee spoke briefly welcoming these friends 
to our meeting. He thought that the secretaries must have discovered' 
that Turkey needed the Gospel almost as much as Chicago. 

Dr. Creegan, on behalf of the visiting friends, made a very felicitous 
reply saying that in his study of mission work on the field he had been 
somewhat surprised not to find what might be called distinctively Con- 
gregational churches. Growing and vigorous churches there were as the 
result of the American Board mission work but none of them were 
distinctively Congr^ational. The explanation for this be found in the 
fact that the missionaries were sent out to build up the Kingdom of 
Christ and were expected to have common sense enough to adjust them- 
selves to the varying conditions found in different countries. 

Mr. Murphy then gave a brief account of the beginning and spread 
of the work of the Methodist Protestants in Japan. There is no distinc- 
tion with them between Japanese and foreign work and no regularly 
organised mission. Ordained missionaries are members of the Con- 
ference which is at present composed of twenty Japanese and four 
foreigners. Theh: work lies along the railroad between Tokyo and 
Nagoya tho they are now branching south into the province of Ise. The 
Conference is autonomous except that the Mission Board reserves the 
right to appoint the president. This may be changed to appointment by 
the Conference subject to approval by the Mission Board. 

Mr. Murphy made a number of allusions to the probable union of 
the Methodist, Protestant, United Brethren, and Congregational churches 
saying that they were fully prepared " to play the lion and the Iamb 
act," that at present everything was quiet and peaceful but they could 
not promise what would happen when they got .inside. 

After the reading of the annual report, which will be published as 
the July number of Mission News, Secretary Hitchcock spoke of the 
work as he had seen it carried on in Austria and in Western and Central 
Turkey. He contrasted especially the last two mentioned fields one of 
which emphasises educational while the other emphasises the more 
strictly evangelistic work. 

The morning session was followed by the usual half hour devotional 
service. 

Friday afternoon was entirely given up to committee meetings, as 
was also the evening, tho one hour of the latter was taken for the church 
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OdIj a few minor items were considered at the morning 

Sc ' session most of the time being given to President 

Harada, who gave a report on the present conditions 

and prospects of Doshisha and the woi-k of the Kumi-ai Churches, and 

to Dr. Gulick, who gave us a glimpse of the religious and theological 

situation in Gennany. 

President Harada's report and request. 

In speaking of Doshisha President Harada declared that it was 
entering on a new era with better conditions and brighter prospects than 
it had had for many years past. The greatest lack was the need of 
funds to adequately carry forward the work. This lack the alumni were 
courageously trying to meet having started last February to raise a 
special fund for running expenfies. Five thousand yen has already 
been pledged and they are hoping to raise at least ten thousand yen 
every year until the much needed endowment can be obtained. He was 
sure that the mission would be glad to co-operafce in meeting this, the 
greatest need of the school. 

Besides the above mentioned fund for running expenses the Kumi- 
ai Churches were hoping to raise a special fund for the use of the Theolo- 
gical Department. The standard of the curriculum in this department 
is to be raised from the opening of the school year next October. A two 
year's preparatory course is outlined which will make the three years of 
the theological course a part of the university course. 

Seven hundred and sixty-five students were reported in all depart- 
ments, over two hundred being in the Girls* School. 

President Harada then spoke of the work of the Kumi-ai Churphes. 
During the past year a special evangelistic campaign had resulted in over 
five hundred baptisms and in connection with all the evangelistic move- 
ments there had been seventeen hundred baptisms, the largest number 
in the history of the church. These movements were being continued 
and they hoped for at least twice the number of baptisms during the 
coming year. He especially thanked the members of the mission for 
their hearty co-operation in this work. 

The Kumi-ai Christians now numbered thirteen thousand regular 
members not including baptised infants. These Christians were cordially 
responding to the requests for money to carry on special efforts and liad 
given more than was needed for the special work in hajad^^ GooqIc 

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the Standing Committee of the Kumi-ai Churches it was voted to request 
the mission to send one or two of its members, for a few weeks at a time, 
to assist in the work in Corea. The work was urgent and hearty official 
approval, with the promise of giving every help possible, had been re- 
ceived on condition that those who should go undei-stood the Japanese 
language and were in sympathy with the Japanese policy in Corea. 

Dr. Gulick's address. 

This was a very clear presentation of the religious .and theological 
situation as it exists to- day in Germany and is shown in the religiousness 
and irreligiousness of the people. 

The Church and State in Germany are very closely united, the 
former being supported by the latter. The country is laid out in syste- 
matic fonn and very careful official record is kept of the church ad- 
herence of the people. In a recent census, notwithstanding the fact 
that the Social Democrats never go near a church, only seven thousand 
people declared that they were not adherents of any religion. 

Systematic religious teaching is carried on in all of the schools until 
the students are about eighteen years old, four hours a we^k being 
given to reh'gious instruction in the common schools. Careful distinctions 
are made between the catholics and the Protestants, each being taught by 
representatives of their own beliefs. The distinction enters into all of the 
school work. History is taught to Catholics from a catholic point of 
view representing Luther as an arch-fiend while to the Protestants he is 
held up as a hero. 

There is a great difference between the Pi'otestant-German and 
English idea of what religion requires of a man. The fonner is emo- 
tional but appeals only to the passive emotions,— contentment, peace with 
God, etc. In the German sermon there is no effort to produce outward 
activity of any marked kind. There Is no connection with daily life. As 
far as the material of the sermons is concerned they might have been 
preached five hundred years ago. There is no effort to produce conver- 
sion because everybody is confirmed between the ag^ of foiu-teen and 
fifteen. In sharpest contrast stands the English sermon which is vitallj^ 
connected with daily life and seeks to produce marked outward acti\ity 
and a thoro-going conversion. 

The irreligiousness of the German people is shown in the fact that 
they are not a church going people. All that is necessary is to attend 
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on other days they are almost empty. Very few of the German students 
or even of the theological professors attend church for the reason above 
given that the sermons do not connect themselves, in any vital vsray, 
with present day life. Let one of the professors preach, however, and 
there is always a crowd. 

The intellectual rationalism of which so much has been heard is 
largely confined to the university circles but the new liberal movement 
is banning to make headway among the common people. The 
representatives of this movement are earnestly religious. They go out to 
the Beer and Music Halls in order to get at the common people and 
charge admission to their lectures because the people are suspicious of 
free lectures. The young pastors are beginning to preach positively 
which gives promise of a religious awakening thru-out Germany. 

The short afternoon session was given almost entirely 
AfternooD ^ ^ discussion, in Committee of the Whole, of the 

question of missionary re-enforcements. This discus- 
sion was brought about by the feeling of uncertainty on the part of the 
Prudential CJommittee concerning the need for re-enforcements in the 
Japan Mission owing to the growing strength and leadership of the 
Kumi-ai Churches. The discussion opened the way for a much fuller 
discussion on the following Monday. 

Saturday evening was given up to the usual entertainment which 
was one of the best that the mission has ever enjoyed. It was largely, 
but not entirely musical, one of the chief features being the singing of 
the senior male quartet. 

The morning service consisted of the annual mission 
The Sunday sermon delivered this year by Dr. Davis, followed by 

Services. the communion. Dr. Davis took as his theme EzekieFs 
vision of the river flowing from beneath the throne, 
rapidly gaining in breadth and depth as it flows on its onward course. 
He traced in outline the growth of the Christian religion from the little 
band of disciples gathered by Christ up to the present day with its 
mighty mission movements tbru-out the world. It is hoped that the 
sermon will be put into permanent form and made available to all. 

The afternoon service, as usual, was conducted by the children and 
altho there were only nine children on the platform, six of whom will 
soon be in America, it was one of the most enjoyable services of recent 

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An evening song service was held after supper at the close of v^^hich 
Dr. Creegan gave a most inspiring address on the lessons of faith taught 
us by .the lives of missionary heroes and heroines in all countries. 

At the morning session a number of items of business of 
The Monday minor importance were passed and a discussion begun 

Sessions. looking toward the co-operation of the Japanese in 
seeking evangelistic re-enforcements both foreign and 
Japanese. The discussion lasted till the close of the morning session and 
was carried over into the afternoon session which resolved itself into a 
Committee of the Whole. The entire afternoon was given to a discussion 
of this subject, the time beuig extended until after five o'clock. A 
large number took part in the discussion, secretaries Creegan and 
Hitchcock also sharing in the debate. 

This discussion gave the secretaries an excellent opportunity to be- 
come acquainted with the Japan Mission and to see clearly the difference 
between the Christian work in Japan and that in other countries. It 
was made very clear that Japan could not be judged by conditions 
prevailing in other countries ; that the growth of evangelistic work in 
Japan was largely dependent on the hearty co-operation of the Japanese 
Christians with the ijiissionaries ; and that re-enforcements should be 
sought with the co-operation and approval of the Japanese. * 

At the evening session Dr. Greene gave a very interesting account 
of the Shanghai Convention. 

At the morning session the discussion of the preceding 
The Tuesday ^^Y ^^ crystallised in a motion looking to a conference 

Sessions. with the Standing Conamittee of the Kumi-ai Churches 
,on the subject of evangelistic re-enforcements and later 
in the day a committee of five was appointed to carry this resolution into 
effect. 

Three members of the Mission Committee on the Increase of 
Evangelistic forces met with eight members of the Kumi-ai Standing 
Committee, and with Secretaries Cretan and Hitchcock, in Kyoto, June 
7th, for a three hour's conference. There was a most cordial and frank 
interchange of views. Dr. Creegan spoke of the inception and object of 
the Laymen's Movement in America and both the secretaries spoke 
briefly to the joint committee. The Japanese brethren expressed thdr 
strong conviction that Japan is not to be evangelized merely by a 
large increase of foreign missionaries and foreign money, and that in the 



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future the work should go forward with Japanese leadership, with the 
missionaries as co-laborers with the Japanese. They felt that the 
training of Japanese evangelists should be emphasized and their number 
greatly increased. As to the specific question of the increase of the 
number of foreign missionaries of the American Board in Japan, they 
wished to consider the question until the regular meeting of their 
Standing CSommittee, July fourth, when they will formulate their thought. 

Fom- other important items came before the meeting for discussion 
and decision during these Tuesday sessions. One was the question of the 
Tottori Kindergarten, which was started by members of the mission 
and developed, in the two years absence of the missionaries from 
Tottori, into a kindergarten occupying one of the mission houses under 
the management of a Japanese. The kindergarten has grown so that 
enlargement of the rooms is necessary to comply with the law concerning 
schodis. 

The mission decided that it could not permanently occupy the 
mission house but. must have a building of its own, that the kindergarten 
should be taken over by the mission on condition that Tottori Station 
is re-enforced ; and that the Prudential CSommittee be asked to 
authorise the station to solicit funds for re-housing it. 

A second important item was connected with the Matsuyama 
Factory Girls' Home. This has now been formally recognised as a part 
of the mission work, a standing committee appointed to care for it, and 
some of the expenses connected with it included in the annual estimates. 

A third item was that concerning the Kobe Kindergarten and 
Training School. This question was finally entrusted to an enlarged 
committee for careful investigation during the coming year. One of the 
unportant questions here is that of location as the lease of the land now 
occupied expires in about two years or a little more. 

A fourth item was the request concerning the Doshisha Girls' School. 
The present plant is entirely inadequate to meet the needs of the school. 
The Woman's. Board of the Pacific is asked to raise ten thousand dollars 
on condition that the Japanese raise five thousand yen before December 
31st 1908, for a new buildmg, and also to raise twenty-five hundred 
dollars to buy, for the foreign lady teachers' home, the American Board 
rights in the house which joins the Girls' School property on the west. 

The meeting adjourned late Tuesday evening. 

M. D. DuNNINgJe 



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Additional Items. 

Mr. Allchin roporte tlio Union Hymn- 
al a ^rcat success financially. Over 
one hundred tliou.^and coj^ics liave bien 
sold, the original outlny of nionity nil 
returned, one thousand tj^n njsc^rv.'d for 
the new Sunday School Union Ilyninal 
which is well under way, and the future 
profits are to be dividend araonii^ the 
denominations interested. The Kunii-ai 
Missionary Society has received its first 
allotment of these profits amounting to 
forty yen., 

ijc ;{; ;fc jjj 

Mr. Curtis rcj)orts a promise of two 
Y.M.C.A. teachers for places in Echi;ro. 
A very cordial welcome was ^iven to 
reprcsentatives from the Y.M.C.A. con- 
vention in Tokyo. Ofiicialdom in Echi- 
go never before ^ave such recognit:()n 
and approval of Christian evangelistic 
work. 

♦ * :K Jf: 

Mr. Clark gave an esixicially en- 
couraging re|X)rt of evitngclistic work in 
Kyushu. 

* * Ji' J?: 

Dr. Petteo re|)ort3 one bundled and 
twenty of the famine children rc^LurniMl 
to the Tolioku from the Okayaiua Or- 
phanage. 



Side Lights. 

" Wo trust this mission in Japan 
when you come to understand your- 
selves." 

Sec. Creegax. 



Mr. reading haltingly from his 

manuscript, — "I am reading it as it is 
written. Please excuse me." 

^: ^ jf: :ic 

Miss of the Entertainment Cora- 

mittcH) on being congratulated on the 
successful evening replied, — " Don't for- 
g(^t to leave out Mrs. ," — mention- 
ing the other lady on the committee. 
^ ^ ^ ^c 

On being told that many l)Other9orae 
problems would be done away with if 
the various Women's Boards would ad- 
minister their j^roperty interests as one 
organizfition, Hec. Creegan replied, — 
*' Wluui Bryan nominates Roosevelt on 
the Democratic ticket ^ve will l>egin to 
think about asking the various AVomen's 
l^>anls to unite their projxjrty interests 
in one organization. Until then we 
might just as well Kit the matter drop." 

^ >i* Jji '!< 

From a maiden .lady, — " I have been 
in the hearts of the Japanese men," 
[laughter], "but they have never given 
thein to mo" [great laughter with the 
question, — " liow alx)ut the foreign- 
ers ? "] ** They arc not so i*esix)nsiva" 

:ii ♦ * '!< 

PitfalLs of the Japanese language as 

sliown in the remark of Mrs. after 

lilr. had given a fine selection on 

tlie organ, — " We will say not dw hitot^i 
but mo idkman'^ [For the benefit of 
the uninitiatetl we add that a literal 
translation of the Japanese words is not 
"more one'' but "more a great deal" 
but the meaning is not " more one " but 
" already a sufficiency."] 



General Notes. 



A very large })art of thus i.<sue is fdl^'d 
with an ac{;ouut of the annual mission 
meeting but as so many were unable to 
bo presi'ut tliis y^ar it s^'cnied advisabh; 
to give a fairly full account of the metjt- 
iiig. 



AVe arc glad to give in this issue a 
brief tho hastily written account of the 
work opeiK^l the past year inOtaru. If 
plans now Irving made. for the coming 
volume of Mission News can bo carried 
out w<; shall later give a fuller accoimt 
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The past few weeks liave seen a num- 
ber of the raembers of our mission leave 
for a year's furlough in tlie Stntes. Mr. 
Grover sailed on the Mhuu^^oia, 
His address will l)e South Milwaukee, 
Wis. Mr. Newell sailed on the Hong 
Kong Mam and will join his family 
at 11,432 Mayfield St., Cleveland, Oliio. 
Mr. and Mrs. Pedley, with their family, 
sailed on the Monteagle. They will 
spend the summer in Peacham, Vt. and 
in the fall will move into Walker 
Cottage, in Anburndale, Mass. Miss 
Alice Cary also sailed on tlui Montea- 
gle. She will attend school in North- 
field, Mass. during the coming year. 

He Jfc ^ ^ 

Very encouraging results have come 
from the evangelistic campaign in the 
student centers of Japan by delegates 
to the Federation Conference in Tokyo. 
In Omi, during a visit by Mr. Karmar- 
kar of India, thirty-two decisions were 
made. In Kyoto the numl)er has reach- 
e<l two hundred and sixty and n^ports 
from twenty cities show nearly two 
thousand decisions. These results S(»em 
to have been well followed uj), an un- 
usually large percentage having already 
applies! for baptism. 



Olaru. 



Otaru is a rapidly growing city of 
al)0ut a hunditid thousand inhabitants. 
There is not so large a pro|)orti()n of 
them registered as is usual in Jaj)an, so 
that the exact figures are not known. 
It is an important port and the junction 
of two important railways. The jx'Ople 
arc commercial, enterprising, and adven- 
turous, and have the good and bad traits 
which belong to such a disposition. Tluy 
are reputed to be devoted only to mat(;- 
rial gain, but seem on the whole (wluv 
ther or not because piqued at the reputa- 
tion) to bo l)etter than tlufir name. 
Large sums of money have hcxsn spent 
on temples, very largely for the sak(? of 
adding beauty to an already singularly 
picturesque situation. Education is re- 



ceiving most earnest attention with im- 
usual emphasis on the moral welfare of 
the embryo citizens of the town. One 
prominent teaclier laughingly said of the 
cor])s of his school : *' There is not one 
of us who is up in his specialty : we are 
all employed purely for our moral in- 
fluence." 

The officials have shown repeatedly 
that th(?y are eager to obtain the aid of 
any and all i-eligious bodies in their 
effort to raise the moral tone of the 
city. 

As would Ix; expected of a new pioneer 
town, con.«(;ien('es are not very sensitive, 
but a good many of the rising young 
m(»n are anxious to get Ix^tter standards. 

Our removal, here was talked of, un- 
known to us, Ix^fore we ever set foot in 
the Hokkaido, and was broached to us 
within twenty-four hours of our arrival 
in Sapporo. The idea was a great sur- 
])iise to us and it took some time for us 
to adjust our minds to a projxjr conside- 
ration of it. The rest of the station was 
in mueli th(i same position. They were 
L^radually b(UL>g driven to what seemed 
a ratiicr un'-oinfoi table conviction that 
one of the fainilies ought to bo here. 
Still, as the lot was likely for obvious 
reasons to fall ujjon us If on any one, 
they were naturally reluctiint to voice 
anything which might be construed 
into pressure for us to leave Sapporo. 
However, the Japmese brethien of the 
Ihitam were clear in their collective and 
several minds that this was the right 
thing. The Christian friends of our 
own and other denominations in Otaru 
expressed their wishes in the same way. 

Th(» oj)portunities to get a good footing 
with the non-Christian community of 
Otaru s(^em(xl very gfxxl. Only one 
mission had a family here, and that 
family, as well as the single lady repre- 
senting another mission, expressed very 
strong d(?sire to have us join the work. 
We all became convinecnl that the move 
ought to 1h) made but were still hesitat- 
ing al)Out the (*xj)rossion of it up to the 
time when we asked the mission to give 
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station. Then it came out that, post- 
poning the question who it should be, 
there certainly ought to be one of us 
here. To this conviction was added the 
opinion of other missionaries who arc 
familiar with the two cities of Otani and 
Sapporo. That also was unanimous, so 
far as we could learn. Thus was settled 
the policy, next came the execution. 

It was one thing to decide to live in 
Otaru, and another to do it. Two 
disastrous fires had made the obtaining 
of temporary, ready-made quarters an 
impossibility. The same cause, super- 
added to the- tremendous growth of the 
city (It is said that only Osaka sur- 
passed it in actual growth last year, and 
that even Osaka fell far l)ehind in pro- 
portional increase), made suitable land 
very hard to find, and carjxjnters both 
scarce and expensive. It has taken 
nearly a year to get a house that is safe 
from fire, healthfully located, and in a 
position to command a growing field for 
work. 

But without moving here a good deal 
of work was undertaken. Frequent 
evangelistic visits have been made. In 
company with another missionary and 
two Japanese evangelists the writer took 
part in a series of streot-meetings which 
were held nearly every day of August 
last year. In anticipation of residing 
here in a few months (much sooner than 
proved possible) an engagement was 
made to teach English a few hours a 
week in 'the Middle School. Tiie work 
began in Xoveml>er and continued all 
winter. 

The actual moving here and entering 



formally on our work has been under 
very pleasant circumstances. Most of 
the Christians were already more or leas 
intimate acquaintances, Some of them 
dating back a good many years to pre- 
Hokkaido days. One was for a good while 
a next-door neighbor, and before that a 
pupil. Their plans for utilizing us are 
varied and enthusiastic. Until further 
notice the writer is asked to take a class 
in the Sunday School and to preach 
once on Sunday in the church. 

The equipment of the outstation is 
considered by outsiders (we are told) 
veiT complete. There is the united 
little church, an aggressive, popular, 
and with-all spiritual evangelist, an 
experienced and able Bible- woman, and 
the missionary family already in inti- 
mate relations with the field. Besides 
all this we have Sapporo back of us for 
it is only ninety-five minutes away, and 
is bouna to us as the same station still. 

Our immediate neighborhood is that 
of the Middle School and the residences 
of its teachers. The new Marine Pro- 
ducts School, tho a little way from the 
town is nearer to this part than any 
other. 

I cannot close without mentioning 
again that Otaru is most happy in its 
charming scenery, of which our house 
gives us an inspiring command. Mud 
is tho cliief hindrance to work. There 
are those who think it has no equal on 
the face of the earth. Even that has 
the advantage of being at least some- 
thing to brag of, of its kind. 

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FOREWORD. 



In writiDg these annual reports of the Christian work in Japan 
with which the American Board is connected, until last year no attempt 
was made to discriminate careftilly between the work of the Mission and 
fiiat of the Japanese churches. Nor wels there any occasion to do so 
inasmuch as the work was in all essential respects a company enterprise, 
or better, a femily afifoir. The Mission could well be pardoned the 
thought that each several church was one of its own children, and it was 
natural that a parental pride should be felt in each individual success, 
which pride became complete as the several units attained to vigorous 
and independent manhood. But with the begiiming of last year a new 
era began, an era in which not only individual churches should stand 
upon thdr own feet but in which the denomination should appear before 
the world as a self-supporting and self-sustaining body, undertaking the 
support also of all the dependent churches which had attained sufficient 
size and strength to warrant their being called churches. The only 
stipulation was that the parent mission should help them with the 
financial burden for two or three years and then the Mission should be 
left free to devote all its energies to the fostering and developing of infant 
church enterprises, and to the general work. 

This was a remarkable forward step, and so with this year's report 
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new arrangement to fulfil the responsibilities it has taken upon itself. 
This fact we wish to emphasize — that the Kumi-ai church is of age, and 
has assumed the work and responsibilities of manhood, and the statistics 
appended at the close of this report are the statistics of a self-sustaining 
•church. 

This report then, should perhaps properly, be confined to telling 
of the work that is being done in the infant churches and in the 
schools and few sociological institutions which may be counted as 
distinctively the Mission's work. But this would fall short of our 
purpose, for it would both leave unreported that which the Christian 
public wants to know from us and it would fail to represent the 
missionary's sphere and work — a work which, if somewhat changed 
in character, is by no means curtailed or rendered less effective. 

The reports from the twelve stations of our mission, on the basis 
of which this report is made up, are written by missionaries who are 
in the habit of looking at things in a statef^an-like way, without 
making distinction between what is mission and what is Kumi-ai 
work, or even between what is denominational and what is national, 
and this report must take on a like cast. The object contemplated 
is to give a fair picture of the rdigious situation in the country as a 
whole, and then to describe the work of the Kumi-ai churches in 
general and that of our own mission in particular. We are now, 
more than ever, missionaries at large, yet not for that reason is 
our sphere of influence limited. We have access to all the churches 
and there are few churches in which the missionaries are not 
oontributing some direct service. 

With this explanation it will not seem invidious to any of our 
Japanese brethren if we write at times of the institutions and 
movements within the Kumi-ai church as if they were our own. 
We are workers together for the Kingdom. 



I. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. 



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value: . "The twelve months under review have been full of interest 
for all friends of Japan. The politicjal and economic re-adjustments 
incident to the recent war have occupied a large place in the minds 
of intelligent men of all ranks. The new sense of strength and the 
increased confidence in the general wisdom of the national policy, 
both as r^ards what we are accustomed to think of as the natural 
sphere of government and also as r^ards those extensions of its 
sphere in the direction of leadership in commercial affairs whiqh 
many Westerners look upon with suspicion, — ^have apparently acted 
as a strong stimulus in every department of life." . . 

delations with other nations^ — "Japan's relations witib 
foreign powers have been on the whole satisfactory. In common 
with all other Americans in Japan the missionaries felt not a little 
anxiety with regard to the outcome of the San Francisco troubles. 
No sensible person feared war, Japan has no desire for war with 
any power, and a war with America would not be contemplated 
with satisfewition, even by the extreme chauvinists, of whom Japan 
has her share. But many did fear in an indefinite way the substitu- 
tion of hatred and suspicion for the marked good will which has 
characterized Japan's relations with America for more than half a 
century. What fruit such hatred and suspicion may bear one never 
knows." Howfever, Dr. Greene continues in substance, and the 
opinion is no doubt widely shared, it is not improbable that 
the feeling of distrust that may have been engendered will be lived 
down provided the policy advocated by our foremost American states- 
men is accepted by the people at large. 

Searing upon Christian progress. — Another, in commen- 
ting upon* the new relationship which Japan has so recently come to 
sustain toward the world-powers, and its bearings upon the prepress 
of the Christian idea, says : " The people, sobered by the war 
and gratified at their cordial reception into the comity of nations are 
well disposed toward foreign and Christian things" and he believes 
that the " new world wide associations are bringing the people in more 
varied and constant contact with the Christian idea so that it will be 
more rapidly and generally, albeit somewhat unconsciously assimilated." 

It is a cause for congratulation that in this country the mis- 
sionaries not only enjoy perfect freedom in the prosecution of their 
work but the Christian movement is looked upon with friendly eyes 



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by many leaders of public opinion both in the government and out 
of it» and these men have not hesitated to give considerate sums of 
money not only in aid of Christian eleemosynary institutions but 
even ion distinctively church work. 

yew Ambassador. — We are glad to be able to note that our 
new American Ambassador, Hon. Luke E. Wright, is winning the 
high regard of the American residents of all classes and that he is 
always ready with helpful counsel for those who need it. 

Moral JSJducaHon.-^There has been a growing feeling of dismay 
in the nation of late years in view of the increasing failure of the 
ethical ideals to control the moral conduct of the student classes. A 
year ago the Minister of Education issued an Instruction in which 
he called attention to a ''tendency to occasional despondency 
and to ethical decadence," which was an occasion for grave anxiety. 
The Instruction precipitated a flood of interesting discussion and 
comment from the press, one outcome of which was that the nation's 
thought has been directed by religious journals and by a few that 
are not religious, to the importance of some religious sanction as a 
basis for moral education. This has no doubt helped to open the 
door for a wider hearing arid acceptance of Christian teaching, while 
the spectacle of the recent great international student gathering in 
the national capital has no doubt had a powerful effect upon the 
national mind tending in the same direction. 

Japan^s World Mission. — Japan continues to hold before 
herself with growing conviction her high sense of responsibility as a 
pioneer of the Orient. "Japan has shown the world how she can 
fight. Now she must show how she can trade and teach and govern." 
This is the prevailing sentiment among all classes. In Korea and 
Manchuria directiy, and in all the other countries of the East indirect- 
ly, she believes she is the chosen apostie of civilization and the 
thought serves to give balance to her own national development. 



II. SOCIOLOGICAL WORK. 



Orphanages. — In the forefiront of the sociological work being 
done in Japan must be placed that of the various Christian orphanages^ 



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the namber of which is being augmented from year to year. Chief among 
them all of course is the Okayama Orphanage, of which Pr. Pettee writes, 
that the past year has been the most remarkable in its history. The 
number of children cared for jumped from three hundred and seventy-five 
to twelve hundred and its expenditures reached nearly yen 150,000. 
Yet as this sum exceeds its regular receipts, the situation has been a 
cause of anxiety and has called out heroic efforts to secure a larget 
income. '' A great advance has been made in the housing and iatBinr 
ing of the children," says Dr. Pdjtee, ** the cottage system has bean 
adopted with fifty-one house mothers, each at the head of her own little 
family and responsible for the twenty children under her care." One 
great event of the year wa« the celebration on April 20th of the twentieth 
anniversary of Mr. Ishii's be-£riending the first orphan, and it W€k6 
an occasion of general rejoicing and congratulation. The graduates of 
the institution have expressed their appreciation by raising among 
themselves yen 1,200, and on this occasion they remembered all the 
older workers with substantial gifts, thirty-five of the older children have 
been baptized during the year. The institution continues to enjoy 
royal patronage and during the year has attracted the attention of 
new men of prominence and property. 

Home for I>is€hargefl PHsotievH atid ScJiool for the 
Blitid. — ^These two independent institutions in Kobe, the one under 
Mr. Muramatsu's care and the other under Mr. Sakonjo's are worthy 
of notice in passing. The earnestness and wisdom that have been 
shown by these two devoted Christian men in fostering these enter- 
prises is most remarkable and their work of helping the unfortun^ybe 
is of great value to the community and to the nation at large. 

Hjanabatake. — Passing now to what is more distinctively the 
work of our own mission we are glad to note first the prosperity and 
growth of the Hanabatake social settlement work in the same city 
under Miss Adams' care. It is hardly necessary to speak here of the 
significance and value of this work in redeeming this city's poor and 
outcast population. Suffice it to say that it has so demonstrated its 
usefulness as to demcmd enlargement. During the year more land 
has been purchased, the school-house has been enlarged, a successful 
free kindergarten has been opened, the continuous services of a physician 
secured, while the regular evangelistic and preaching work have been 
carried on with vigor and success. The number of different patients 



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thia^ted at the Free Dispensary is reported at three hundred and forty while 
tHere have. been three thousand different treatments and prescriptions. 
It is interesting to note also the large amount received as local gifts — ■ 
yen 21 00 — which is more than twice the sum contributed by the mission. 

Matmiyama Fa4itm*^i Girled Hmne. — This Christian home 
in a' factor}' city was founded to give a pure home and evening educa- 
tion' to factory girls, and if one questions whether or not it has 
jiBBtifled itself h|B has but to read Miss Parmelee's account of tte 
institution in a recent Mission News, It seems to have won the 
confidence not only of the factory employers and ' the city oflS- 
cials, but the larger Japanese public and even the central govern- 
nient are more than appreciative of the important work it is dcring 
both through its school and its home life. The Board of Educatioa 
haife accredited the schod not only as one of high quality but as a 
Christian school as well. Unfortunately, for various reasons, the 
institution is not yet self-supporting as it was hoped it might be; 
still the addition of a weaving department during the year will help 
in solving the problem by attracting and holding enough girls to fill 
iJae house to its fiill capacity. (Note. — Since writing the above, a 
month earlier, the house has been filled to its utmost limit and 
the workers are troubled to know what to do with the large 
numbers that are applying for admission.) Dr. Gulick says of the 
infilitutiou : " the Home has already done a work for the factory 
giris of Japan which we cannot easily over-estimate.** 

Matmij/ama Night School. — Miss Judson's Night Schod 
mustbe classed under educational institutions as well as sociological, since 
it is giving full primary and grammar courses to upwards of one hundred 
poor children. Yet it not only provides a technical intellectual education, 
it offers work and dormitory privileges to a limited number while the 
institution and the entire community are saturated with a Biblical 
atmosphere through the influence of its teachers. Children from this 
school are marked from their fellows in the factory where they work by 
tlieir better conduct and talk, while their non-Christian employer, im- 
pressed by the value of the Christian training given is contributing yen 
twenty yearly toward the support of the school. " To the children and 
young men who yearly fill our school,*' Miss Judson writes, " the Night 
School is church and source of every high and holy influence 
brought to bear on them ab well as their one opportunity of obtun- 



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ing an education. To the young women in its dormitory it is a 
door opening out from a dark and narrow life into the joys of 
Christian womanhood and service." It is a cause of regret that the in* 
stitution is so much hampered by its cramped and inadequate quarters. 

Miyazaki School Girls^ Some. — ^This work, while not de-: 
serving the name of an institution, is perhaps worthy to be classed as a 
sociological enterprise, inasmuch as it seeks to give a Christian home 
and Christian training to a limited number of school-girls (seven or 
eight) within the. missionaries' home. School privileges are not provided 
other than the excellent government higher school, but the daily. 
Christian training is of real value. All have become Christiana 
during the year except three who had received baptism previously^ 
It is hoped that eventually the work may be broadened and that a 
dormitory may be erected with a capable Japanese matron in charge. 



III. THE EVANGELISTIC FIELD AND FORCES. 



The General Seligious Situatimi. — The past twelve montln 
has been a truly remarkable one in the history of Christian progress. 
Three movements or tendencies may be noted as characterizing the 
year. The first is an increased readiness to hear and receive Christian 
truth, the second is the manifest desire and effort among Christians 
for the development of an independent Japanese Christianity, while- 
the third is the notable evangelistic fervor and the large ingatherings. 
These movements have been more or less common to all the Japanese- 
churches though perhaps best illustrated in the Kumi-ai body. Mr. 
Newell says in reporting the annual meeting of the Kiuni-ai churches 
held in Kobe last fall : " In past years the great goal of independenco^ 
may have obscured at times, the greater goal of spirituality. But it was 
evident at this meeting that the near approach of the realization of that 
independence idea is having a sobering effect which responsibility always, 
brings. And the manifest hunger and thirst for spiritual results 
showed that the greater goal has come now fully into view." The 
chosen motto of that meeting was "pray without ceasing," and that 
prayer had a definite end in view was made evident by the fact that for 
the second time yen two thousand was raised for extending the forward 



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movement evangelistic work, a thousand yen was guaranteed by a few 
deacons to give two weeks of practical and theological lectures in the 
capital to evangelists and pastors from the interior, the budget for 
home and foreign mission work was doubled, involving at least yen 
ten thousand and the first Woman's Board for Home and Foreign 
Missions was organized. Dr. DeForest after extended tours both in 
«nd out of the famine region of last year, tells us through the Mission 
News that that great famine is not only past but "the great 
-spiritual famine of a quarter of a century that starved the young 
men and sent so many of them to despair and suicide is at 
last over and the fields now are everywhere white to harvest. " Of 
till the changes I have seen during thirty-two years," he continues, 
** none surpass these two, the universal hunger for new knowledge, 
«nd the very marked wide hunger for soul-food that shall give life 
more abundantly/' 

In this connection ^Dr. Barton's testimony at the close of his few 
weeks of careful observation of spiritual conditions here in Japan is 
interesting ; " The present evangelistic movement under the Japanese 
Missionary Society cannot fail to command the sympathy and 
admiration of all who understand it. Never before in the history 
of any country, after less than fifty years of Christian effort, have 
isuch direct, systematic and effective measures been put into operation for 
home evangelization. It seems to me that we can now see on every side 
indications of a most sweeping revival. Mr. Miyagawa recently said to 
me that he believed there were now in Japan one million people not 
members of churches who were ordering their lives in accordance with 
the New Testament and who required now only to be brought to 
:a public confession of their faith." 

Dr. Davis writes : " There is a greater readiness to listen to the 
•Gkjspel and accept Christ, especially among young men, than has been 
known for years." And the statement is borne out by the remarkable 
results of the evangelistic campaign following upon the heels of the 
Studfflit Federation Conference early in April. Delegates from abroad, 
with Japanese co-laborers in -groups of two or more, went out into 
twenty of the largest cities of the empire to present in a definite way 
the. claims of Christ, with the result that in the two or three weeks 
that elapsed nearly two thousand people, it is claimed, most of 
them students, registered a purpose to become Christians, Dr. Pettee 



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writes: "Tbe progxesB of the year has been very excep^iaoal and 
yet very healthy. The aggressive evangelistic sgirit ci the titnte, so 
much in evidence ebewheie, has prevailed also in Okayama prefiaoture 
and the oatlook as this report is made up gives promise of gratifying 
results in the future. There have been some two hundred baptisms in 
llie whole fidd, an advance of thirty-three per-oent over the average 
record." The Maebashi field also reports two hundred new converts 
as one fruit of a wonderful revival that has been going on there, and 
o&er Mds echo the dominant evangelistic note. 

Even where no special effort has been put forth great accessions 
are reported. The four independent Kumi-ai churches in Osaka have 
added one hundred and ten by baptism during the year while the 
Hongo church in Tokyo under Hev. Danjo Ebina's care has increased 
its resident membership thirty-three per-cent, with one hundred and 
sixiy-one baptisms. 

So much fc»r the situation in general. 

The Forward MovemetU. — ^When we inquire more particularly 
what methods have been employed to develop this interest and produce 
such results we must mention first the *' Shilchii DendO *' ajid similar 
movements, which, translated, means concentrated evangeUsm. The 
method of procedure is as follows: a certain center is selected where 
tbare is already a growing church. This field is diligently cultivated for 
a period of some months by the local workers, getting the Christians 
ready for the new advance and raising up new inquirers by diligent 
Bible instruction both within and without the church. Then a number 
of pastors of note and experience from the metax)politan centers come iu 
and for a panod of from a week to two weeks carry on a vigorous evange- 
listic campaign with nightly platform meetings and daily Bible instruction 
and perscmal interviews. Up to the date of writing the Japanese Misr 
sionary Society has carried on ofiScially ten such campaigns in as many 
caiters with over five hundred converts resulting. Yet these figures 
by no means account for all, since in connection with this work in the 
centers unreported campaigns were held in smaller out-stations, and 
other work of a like nature such as that of the Okayama Evangeliza- 
tion Society, has been carried <m in a number of places. This last 
mentioned society is the out-growth of the Bible Evangelizing Company 
which for four years has worked faithfully ojl the plan of one worker 
teaching one Gospel to cme inquirer, and which, it is pg* ipPO^g^^d^f^y* 



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was among the earlieet and most piactical manifestations of the present 
revival movement throughout the land. During the year special meet-, 
ings were held in five different places und6r this agency resulting in one 
hundred and forty-three baptisms. Evisn our own missicmaries, notaWy 
in the Hokkaido fidd, have tried this method of evangelization with success^ 

A few instances will suffice to show the pow^ of the movements. 
Of the meetings in Tsuyama our correspondent writes : " I have never 
witnessed a lygher, healthiier uplift, relatively speaking. No wonder^ 
there are already two hundred inquirers in thirty diflferent houses at 
Tsuyama and the fire is spreading throughout the prefecture." Fifty-six 
persons were baptized in the church there at one time. In the old 
castle town of Ayabe people* came for miles and camped out in the 
church. Thirty-four public meetings were held, one a theater meeting 
attended by eight hundred people. Seventy-six people received baptism, 
ten of whom were girls from a filature factory under the management 
of an earnest Christian man whose constant influence added to that 
of these special meetings, resulted in three hundred out of the six 
hundred girls, asking for baptism. The one reporting the meetings 
adds: "This marvelous work of the Holy Spirit in this smalltown 
is beyond expectation ; but it simply brought to fruition many years 
of patient toil and seed-sowing. This last seems to have been the 
experience everywhere. Christianity was brought to the attention 
of a multitude of new hearers but the decisions were almost wholly 
from those to whom . Christianity was no new thing. In Senda* 
where the remarkable meetings culminated in forty-seven baptisms on 
one Sunday in one church and as many more in a Presbyterian church, 
many of the new converts had attended Sunday School for years. In 
Miyazaki and two other places in the same field the meetings resulted 
in one hundred accessions to the three churches, which almost doubled 
the resident membership. In Imabari and Kochi in the Matsuyama 
field, an aggregate of seventy-seven was added the first Sunday and 
many more since, while in the Maebashi field, where the work centered 
in four lai^e places with two hundred Christians as the visible fruit 
of the revival that has spread through the entire province, these 
beneficent results may be largely attributed to this same movement. 

If we ask what the subsequent effects and results of the move- 
ment may be, we must confess to a feeling of deep anxiety in view 
of the great burden that has been laid upon our churches of training 



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and establishing in the foith this vast influx of undeveloped material. '. 
As one sajrs, "It is one thing to get and another to hold, and our' 
pastors are driven to prayer and much hard thinking in order to cope '> 
with the task that has been laid upon them.'* And there are other 
gains perhaps more permanent and real than the large number of 
converts. The wide hearing that has been accorded the Gospel, the 
awakened sympathy or the definite espousal of the Christian cause 
by many leading men in public and private life, and the new places i 
that have been opened for Christian meetings are remarkable achieve- 
mt^nts. Public buildings, government schools, business men's clubs have 
opened their doors freely-r^-a thing that would have been impossible 
ten or even five years ago. Here ar6 oth^r results of the movement; 
also which Mr. Pedley records : " An eagerness to work for the 
province as a whde, rather than for any one church ; growing conscious- 
ness of responsibility to God on the part of lay members and a difference 
in the Sunday sermon — not less inteUecfual but more fervent and direct." 
The movement s^ms to have been bom of the Spirit of God. 

I^edehing an^l Tmiring. — The*work above outlined is of 
course largely Kmni-ai work, though our own work has been more or lees 
tributary to it and our own chapels have been greatly affected by it. 
Coining now to what is more particulariy the work for which the 
Mission is responsible, we would mention first our general preaching- 
and touring which occupies so large a part of many of the missionaries' 
time. In all the stations much of this kind of work iis being done 
and there seems to be little falling off in the demand for it. In spto: 
of his imperfect command of the language the missionary's presence 
and his message counts. We occasionally receive unsolicited testimonies 
as to the missionary's influence, that gives us cheer. For instance, 
on .the occasion of the leaving of Dr. and Mrs. DeForest on furlough 
a few months since, the local Sendai paper spoke in complimentary 
terms of the Esteem in which their friend was held and added ; " If our 
people think that they liave made Japan what it is to-day by their 
own strength alone they are greatly mistaken. Behind Japan's 
victories, Japan's intellectual and moral progress there are these 
missionaries who have always stood for the cause of justice." 

The Chairman of our Outlook and Evangelistic Conunittee says, " The 
times are ripe for a large amount of evangelistic touring," and no one . 
who has had any part in this kind of work but knows bow valuable it 



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is lor imparting Obiistian trath to the easaal hearer in public meetings and 
to giving cheer and counsel to many a seeking learner (x a diflcoun^ged 
feUow-worker. The same witness gives it as his observation that 
'' people are ready to listen and be led if the truths of the Gospel are 
presented in a vigorous and sympathetic manner, in eyen the 
belated parts of Japan." He suggests that work done by our mis- 
sionaries in conjunction with the Japan Missionary Society might 
be productive of even larger results. 

The missionary's ability to preach acceptia.bly brings him into a 
variety of forms of service. Sometimes he is called upon to assume 
virtually all the duties of a pastor over a local church for a considerate 
period of time as has been- the case vnth Mr. Newell in the Komachi 
church during the past year. 

Again it is Gospel-t^it preaxshing that invites him, as in connec- 
tion with the Exposition in Sapporo, which hafi absorbed so much of 
our missionaries' time there reoehtly. Or stre^ preaching, as in Otaru 
where two missionaries and two Japanese pastors worked together for 
a month or more and at tlfe close one of the pastors said he fdt **a 
new zest in the preaching of the Grospel ; that his pulpit now was as 
broad as the limits of the city." Even on trains or boats or basJuis 
we often find the interested group to whom one may open up the 
word of life. Further to be mentioned is the service that is being 
rendered through the English sermon for which the mksionary is 
frequently called upon, either on special occasions or in the more re- 
gularly sustained services like that in Kyoto, which is of so great value 
not only to the resident foreign community but to the large number 
of tourists who visit the city. 

Bible Classes. — Next to preaching and touring perhaps no 
form of work occupies more of the missionaries' attention than teach- 
ing the BiUe to individuals and to groups of interested inquirers. 
Much of the teaching is in English and many students come at first 
for the sake of the English, but they gradually become interested in 
the truth till they are glad to study the BiMe deeply for its own 
sake. One of the missionaries in Niigata has had six English Bible 
classes during the year from different classes of society, all of which 
have resulted in direct and visible spiritual results. All pastors regard 
their Bible work as very important and some put their maiA strength 
into ii For instance, one pastors in the Miyazald field has had as many 



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as twenty-four different appo4ntment6 to teach the Bible weekly, eithet 
with, groups of seekers in private homes or with individuals at hia 
own house. It is surprismg what a demand there is for Bibles. A few 
weeks ago a BQAe seller came to Miyazaki and scM over a huncb^ 
copies of the New Testam^it in three days and this notwithstanding 
the fact that anoth^ agent had sold as many there not two yean 
before, and that the missionaries are selling Bibles oonstimtly. 

There is probably not a lady missionary in our number, what* 
ever her other wcnrk may be, but has one or more BiUe classes, 
chiefly among students. Especially noteworthy in this line is Mna 
Bradshaw's work in Sendai and Miss Daughaday's work in Sappoia 
In tl^ absence of all the representatives of the Sendai station XK> 
detailed report for the past year is available but in other years it 
was said th^re were more accessions to the church through Miss 
Bradshaw's BiUe classes than through any other agency, while the 
Sapporo missionaries give a similar testimony as to the value ol Wm 
Daughaday's work. 

Sunda/y Schools. — ^This form of work is gaining increased pro- 
minence and rightly so. It is bard to over-estimate the value of tlw 
work with children in laying strong foundations. There are seven Sun- 
day Schods supported by the Mission in Kyoto, five of them under tb^ 
charge of as many of our lady missionaries, while in the entire dty there 
are twenty-eight of all denominations, twenty-three having joined the 
newly formed association. This national Sunday School Federation 
has been organized as the result of the viat of Mr* Frank L. 
Brown, the representative of the International Sunday School Asso- 
ciation. It is hoped that this federation will lead to a great increase 
of interest in the work of the Sunday School and to a more intelligent 
zeal in the production of Sunday School literatrue. From the first of 
July it will assmne charge of the publication of Quarterlies and other 
lesson hdps. In Sapporo one school is reported as under the local 
missionary's control ; in Sendai there are two, in Tottori two either 
controlled or supported by the mission, in Niigata there are three and 
in Miyazaki tiiere is one in the missionaries' house and several others 
here and there connected with the Station's work. The largest and 
most remarkable Sunday School in Japan is the new one organized the 
first of January in the Okayama orphanage of nine hundred members. 
Having no building large enough to contain them all they have met 



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every Sunday thus far, for their opening exercises, under the blue 
vault of heaven. 

Wark for Young Men.. — In connection with most of the 
stations there is some kind of specific work for young men, carried 
on either through the channels of some organization like the Y.M.C.A. 
or in a less formal way. English and Bible teaching are the mis- 
sionaries' chief means of influence though in several places there are 
loan libraries, reading-rooms, and play rooms, singing classes, etc. for 
thdr benefit. In the larger field the Y.M.C.A. has made unwonted 
progress during the yeaa: with a new association building completed 
in Nagasaki and another begun in Kyoto and with student dormi- 
tories either begun or projected in a number of places. In Hachiman, 
through the influence of Mr. Vories, a teacher in the government 
Commercial School located there, three hundred students have been 
brought under Biblical instruction, twenty-eight have been baptized 
and a Christian dormitory has been completed, in spite of the violent 
opposition of the Buddhists. 

Soy's Clubs* — This work has met with special success in Sendai 
and Okayama where the skillful leadership of the lady missionaries 
has served to keep the boys who thought themselves too big to go 
io Sunday School, under Christian instruction until they were safely 
launched upon the shores of manhood. 

Cliristian Endeavor. — This has formed a very important ad- 
junct to the general work wherever it has been carried on, especially in 
the girls' schools. In Okayama, Christian Endeavor heeidquarters for 
Japan, the cause has flourished and Dr. Pettee has lent especially 
valuable assistance to the national work. In Miyazaki the somewhat 
novel old people's society has been prospered. 

Women's Work. — Among the different ways in which the lady 
missionaries are exerting a strong influence may be mentioned especially 
the work done through the church women's societies which are more 
or less active in all our stations. These societies have in most cases some 
Bible study connected with them and in various ways they are aiding 
the local church and the Christian cause. Begarding the work of one 
such society in Maebashi our correspondent writes : " A society of the 
young women of the chvuxih has been formed and they distinguished 
themselves early in their career by inviting one hundred and fifty giris 
who reel silk in the factories and treating them to an afternoon entertain- 



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ment in which the needs of body, mind and soul were folly met*" 
Another item which gives encouragement may be meEttioned in this 
place. " A woman's meeting held in connection with the recent 
evangelistic movement in Annaka was attended by some four hundred 
women, less than one hundred of whom were Christians." 

Cooking dassies are in some places also proving a valuable means 
of reaching and influencing ladies of the higher social ranks. Helpful 
work is being done also in a few plaises through temperance societies. 
In Niigata, besides the customary women's societies there is a mother's 
meeting, and three flourishing societies for girls of different ages, all of 
which are developing true Christian woma^hood and raising up workers 
for the cause of Christ. This is in "darkest Echigo" where a com* 
mon threat of parents to their little girls is, *' If you are not good 
we will not let you be a geisha.' ' 

In passing we must mention the valued work of the Bible women 
'SO closely associated with the missionaries. It would be difficult to 
calculate how many homes are opened to the hearing of the Gospel 
through these earnest sowers of the word. The Tottori correspondent 
speaks especially of the way in which their Bible woman won her 
way to the hearts of a large number of people in a few months. 

MJusic, — ^The missionary has a large opportunity for influence 
both direct and indirect, if he possesses musical ability. Japan is 
seeking musical culture with ever increasing earnestness, and the demand 
for instruction in music is second only to the demand for English. 
Successful classes have been maintained during the year in a number 
of places, notably Tokyo, Niigata, Osaka, Tottori, and Miyazaki, while 
the work of our missionaries in the first three places in developing 
musical taste in certain churches, has not only been valuable for its 
own sake but it has been an important evangelizing agency. Mr. 
Allchin has been able to extend his services in this line to a number 
of different places. Organs have been bought by several churches 
during the year and the sale of the Union Hymn-book has now exceeded 
one hundred thousand copies. A new Union Hymn-book for Sunday 
Schools is in process preparation. 

CaUing cund, Entertainit^. — ^The characterization of the 
work of the missionary would not be complete without mentioning his 
calling work which not only occupies so much of his time but is the 
means par excellence for Christian influence. . We may not as frequently 



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as does the pastor at home gain the deep heart to heart touch wi& 
these people of a race alien to ooiselTes but the time and effort 
expended in this kind of W(»:k pay even greater dividends than at 
home. Here, as everywhere, the personal interview is of -first im- 
in the work of evangelization. 

Other Work. — It would be impossible to make a complete cata- 
logue of all missionary activities. Committee work, training m 
house and home-keeping, teaching of sewing, teaching of piano and 
organ, superintendence of building operations, soical entertaining, pro* 
moting civic reforms, non-professional medical assistance and nursing 
and in a hundred and one other ways the missionary is making a 
"friendly use of power," bringing in "sweetness and light.*' 

Special »ucce^ses, Special faithfulness* — ^It is worth while 
to mention briefly some of the names of churches and of men both 
in the Eumi-ai body and amcmg our own workers, that have been 
the medium of special blessing. For largest aggregate gain in member* 
ship Mr. Ebinal's church leads vnth one hundred and sixty-one additions 
while in contributions the Beinanzaka church in Tokyo, with an average 
contribution of yen 16.16 per resident member, is doubtless first. In this 
connection it is wdl to note what Dr. Greene says r^arding this matter 
of gifts when he says that " allowance must be made for the fact 
that in the church statistics in Japan individual gifts for enterprises 
outside the churches, although they may be given in the care of 
the Eumi-ai Christians for example, by a Christian for the benefit of 
enterprises under Christian auspices, are seldom if ever reported." He 
mentions a case in point jDf a gift amounting to yen three thousand 
which nowhere appears in the reports of the Eumi-ai churches. . 

We rejoice in the prosperity of the Eujo chapel in Osaka, <hi 
the completion and entrance into its beautiful new building ; in Miya- 
konojo of the Miyazaki field and its large numerical increase treUing 
the former resident membership ; in the spiritual revivings that have 
come to so many churches, especially Marugame in the Matsuyama 
field, Ayabe in the Eyoto field and several of the churches in Oka- 
yama prefecture ; and for the steady and growing usefulness of the 
Nagaoka church in Echigo throughout a large community. 

We are proud c^ blind evangelist Mai^mo of Tottori, whose 
increasing years have brought no abatement to his zeal ; of evangelist 
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Master has resalted in so many inquirers acd so many baptasms 
daring fche year ; of Miura Tetsuro of Wakuya in the Sendai field, whose 
splendid loyalty to Christ has won for him a rare place in the hearts of 
an entire community. On leaving his field this year he was honored 
by six farewell meetings at one of which eight students in the highest 
class c^ the Agricultural School expressed a demand for baptism 
from him in attestation of the faith he had inculcated in them. 

We glory in the faith that led the young Doshisha student, seven 
years ago, on his return to his home in Matsuyama prefecture, to 
begin active Christian work by opening a Sunday School for the 
children of his village, a work which he has continued through all 
these years, and now lately he has added to it a Y.M.C.A. and a 
Temperance society. We are thankful for the young teacher in ' 
Tottori prefecture who braved all opposition until he was compelled 
to leave his school and find work elsewhere because of his persistence 
in Christian activity ; and for the Christian teacher of Sanashi in 
Niigate prefecture whose earnest and almost unaided efforts resulted 
not only in the conversion of most of the members of his large family 
dide but in the revolution of the thought of almost the entire com- 
munity in reference to Christianity. 

We are amazed when we read of the Christian activity of business 
men like Mr. Hadano of the silk filature in Ayabe, of whom mention 
has already been made, or of the Sumitomo family — the proprietors 
of the Besshi copper mine — who, though not Christians, have done 
80 much for the support of the Gk)spel in that region; or of the 
Ogura Eailroad Construction Company in Tottori — Christian business 
men in whose path Sunday Schools, Bible classes, and preaching 
services have started up like magic. These are only a few of the 
evidences of the vitality of the Christian forces during the year past. 

New Work. — The opportunities for new work have been more 
than could be met. Among the new enterprises may be mentioned the 
start in Suma, a fashionable resort near Kobe, opened and sustained 
in conjunction with the local District Association ; also the beginning 
of a promising work in Obihiro in the Hokkaido, Bible classes for 
the first time in a village near Okayama, famed as the seat of an 
important academy, and the re-opening of the entire Tottori field 
after a suspension of two years. This last is worthy of somewhat 
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though not entirely lost, has not floorished. The wdoome acoorded 
the returning missionaiies was therefc»:e especially ootdial, and the 
addition at onoe to the working hvoe of four missioDaiiee <two peor- 
inanently ai^ two for the year only)» a new evangelist and two new 
Sible women has made possiUe not only the reviving of the old 
work but the starting of new. As a result of the new life a laige 
new church has been projected, a new oncgBkn has been porchased, and 
one or more new preaching plaoes have been opened. 

The development of the Otara branch of the Hokkaido woric 
and the decision that one of the two missionskry families in Sappoco 
should take up residence in Otaro, has m^nt the virtual opening up 
of a new work if not of a new station. 

I wiU not attempt to write of the new fields that might and 
that ought to be entered, but which we are positively prevented from 
entering for leick of men and means. It would be difficult to set a limit 
to the number of {daces where the appeal for Christian workers is 
nrgent. I will simply copy an advertisement that appeared in a 
NiEtgaoka paper a short time ago and let that voice the appeal of 
many another {dace: ''Wanted Christian Teaching. It is a pity 
that the large town of Yoita should have but one resident Christian. 
If an evangelist will come and hold meetings I will guarantee him 
an audience.'* 



IV. CHURCH BUILDING. 



One of the remarkable signs of the times is the unprecedented 
activity during the last two years since the dose erf the war in church 
building. Never in the history of Christianity in Japan have we 
seen anything like it. There is hardly a station m which there has 
not been some church building enterprise on hand during the paak 
year. Beference has been made to the fine new Kujo Chapel in 
Osaka. The Heian Church, the oldest church in Kyoto, has re- 
oently completed the remodeling of its structure, making it the largest 
in the city. Maebashi has a large new church under way and Tottori 
is planning for large things. In the Niigata field two new buildings 
have been completed, at Shibata and Nakajo, and[jt^^o^theif congrega- 



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tioDS are soliciting aid. Id the Kyoto fidd two new obuiches have 
be^i built, at Fakochiyama and Shimmaiziira, and one other place 
is making plans. In the Miyazald fieLA, in addition to the recently 
completed extensive repairs on the Miyazald church, there are five 
other places where the Christians are raising money for church 
bcdldings. Dr. DeForest, in reporting a certain tour throogh Northern 
and Central Japan says, " Of all the tours I have made in Japan 
I never struck such a fev^r for church building as I found among the 
Kumi-ai Christians this time. I made a list of twelve churches newly 
built or doubled in size or planned for in the immediate future, at 
a total cost of yen fifteen thousand, which is yen five thousand more 
than they used last year." 

At the 1906 Mission Meeting a voluntary association was formed 
among the missionaries for the purpose of aiding these churches which 
are making such heroic efforts to propedy house themselves. In 
pursuance of this plan yen three hundred has already been expended 
in aid of four churches, while applications are in hand for at least five 
more. Now is the time for a large expenditure of money by those who 
would show real sympathy with these struggling Christians in Japan. 



V. EDUCATIONAL WORK. 



In OeneraL — ^The past year has been remarkable in educational 
circles for the interest that has been manifeslied throughout the country 
in Christian teaching and Christian teachers. Normal and Middle 
schools have opened their halls for Christian lectures; one missionary 
writes that since the first of January he has been invited to speak in 
primary schools ten different times. During most of the year Prof. 
.Geo. T. Ladd has been connected with the faculties of the two Imperial 
Universities in Tokyo and Kyoto and has exerted a positive Christian 
influence in both institutions. One of our missionari^ has been teaching 
a few times a wedc in a government Middle School, thus adding to 
his influence, while another has recently been appointed a lecturer in the 
Kyoto Imperial Univeisity. Bible classes among students and teachers 
of government schools have multiplied, while our Christian schools are 
nearly all fiDed to the limit of their present capacity. Never was the 



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student body of Japan so accessible to Christian teaching. Dr. Barton 
observes in regard to this new receptivity of students for Christian truth : 
** The change from eleven years ago when I was here last is almost 
incredible." 

Schools Connected tvith the Mission^ — ^The Mission is 
now connected with seventeen Christian educational institutions, either 
in direct. control or j^isting the Japanese. Of this number four are 
kindergartens, five are higher girls' schools, including Kobe College and 
the Doshisha Girls* Department, and three are elementary schools for the 
poorer classes in Matsuyama and Okayama, as previously mentioned. 
Of the remaining five two are the Kobe Kindergarten Training School 
and the Kobe Women's Evangelistic School, while three are comprised 
under the Doshisha as the College, Academy and Theological School. 
Hanabatake includes three schools in one — a kindergarten, a primary 
department and a night school. 

IPoshisha, — ^The prosperity of Doshisha may be inferred from the 
fact that in all its departments the present enrollment is the largest for 
years, aggregating seven hundred and sixty-five students. In April 1907, 
Eev. Tasuku Harada, pastor of the Kobe Kumi-ai church, was inaugura- 
ted as President of the Doshisha and Principal of its schools, he having 
been elected to fill the two offices that had been left vacant by the re- 
signations of Messrs. Shimomura and Niwa. His coming is hailed with 
great satisfaction since he not only possesses marked ability for the posi- 
tion, but he holds the good will of all the institution's constituents, which 
should result in centering the interest of the entire Kumi-ai body upon 
this school. Another event of importance is the coming, after two years 
of study abroad, of Dr. Sidney Gulick to occupy the chair of Systematic 
Theology, which will add strength to the institution as a whole. 

In the Academy, the large number of applicants has made it 
necessary to limit the number of students who may be received. In the 
College, a division has been made into two departments. Economic and 
Literary, and the lecture system has been largely extended. Among 
those who have been engaged for weekly lectures for the 
coming year are three professors from the Imperial University 
and a leading bank official of the city. In the Theological School the 
entering class of twenty last fall was the largest for years, and it seems as- 
though a beginning were to be made in the solution of the most vexed 
problem before the Japanese Churches to-day — ^the supplying of well- 



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equipped, Japanese Christian leaders. There are thirty-three students now 
enrolled and the fraternity of feeling which we enjoy with the Methodist 
Protestants and United Brethren is evidenced by the fact that of this 
number two are from the former and one from the latter body. Most 
of the students are engaged in some form of evangelistic work under 
the direction of the city pastors. There is a plan for lengthening the 
curriculum from four to five years that the best possible training may 
be given before the students go out into the active ministry. Iij the 
Girls' Department, the problems of administration of the year are near- 
ing harmonious solution. An almost entire change in the corps oi 
Japanese lady teachers has brought inevitable confusion, but things 
are gradually changing to a more stable basis. 

The crying need of the Doshisha at this stage is for a more 
adequate endowment and funds that can be used for necessary, 
enlargement. In conclusion I will quote from Mr. Lombard's report 
" We are at the beginning of a great forward movement under the 
administration of President Harada. The prospects of the school were 
never brighter. For the needs of development in the Theological and 
College Departments the alumni are planning to increase the income by 
gifts, and an endowment project is being inaugurated." 

Kobe College* — ^The past year has been marked as one of 
material change and blessing. A piece of land adjoining the College 
grounds of about an acre in extent has been leased and a well-equipped 
building has been erected upon it for the academy classes, with vacant 
space left for athletic grounds. In addition to this a handsome new 
structure, the largest of all the buildings, is in process of erection in the 
center of the college gix)unds. This will be used as Chapel, Library, and 
Administration Building combined. The campus is also being trans- 
formed and beautified. 

An important event of the year has been the organization of a 
Board of Managers of which several members, among them two 
alumnae, are Japanese. The results thus far have abundantly justified 
the change. The musical department of the school has done good work 
during the year, and the science department has been strengthened by 
the return, unexpectedly, of Dr. Holbrook. A beginning has been made 
in organized student self-government which promises well. There has 
been a quiet deepening of the spiritual life among the students without 
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The OsOfka Baiicwa CrirW School. — Unusual changes have 
been made in the teaching force of this Japanese school, yet this thirtieth 
jQdx of its hist(»7 has been marked by vigorous work and heightened 
usefulness. The great value of the school, apart from its educational 
character consists in its vital spiritual influence. Teachers and pupils 
are all in regular Bible classes, one hundred and thirty-one are members 
of the two Chrislaan Endeavor societies, and the atmosphere of the whole 
ihstitution is intensely Christian. There are thirty-two in the vernacular 
graduating class for 1908 and seven in the English class, one of them in 
the fourth generation of Christians. 

Matsuyanva and Maebashi OirW Schools. — Both of 
these schools have progressed steadily in numbers and efiSdency. The 
former has now been under the Mission's care for one year and the school 
has been entirely transformed both in its equipnent and in its inner life. 
Both schools are saturated with the Bible and the spirit of the teachers is 
excellent. In the former school out of a graduating class of nine only 
two woe not Christians, while in the latter sixteen of the thirty-four 
graduates were Christians. 

Wonian^s Evangelistic School. — This school is just complet- 
ing the twentieth year of its life in its present quarters and reports a total 
of sixty-five Kble Women trained and graduated since the beginning of 
it3 history. A new home for the school is now in process of building on 
its own premises, and it is expected that witii the new building and t^ 
new missionary helper who is coming, the institution will gain in 
afifectiveness and power. Certain K\uni-ai pastors have been asked to 
act as an advisory committee to give counsel and sympathy and it is 
believed this will make a new point of contact with the churches. 

Kobe Kindergarteti Training School. — We rejoice with 
Miss Howe over the progress this school has made during the year. The 
first larger class has come consisting of sixteen girls with a waiting list of 
ten more. New equipment has been added and improvements made and 
a large gift has come from a Japanese who appreciates wlmt has been 
done for his children. 

The Kindergartens. — ^The five kindergartens under our ladies' 
care, including the one in HanaJbatake, have flourii^ied as usttal, each 
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VI. PUBLICATION. 



In General* — ^There hfts been no great \rolume of Christian litoa- 
tore pablisbed this year thoagh theore has been a nonxial increafie. The 
most Gognificant fact is the wide advertiaog Christianity has received 
ihioogh the secular daily press, especially in tiieftdi reports of tiie Sttident 
Federation Conference and the subsequent evangelistic campaign, and 
later the work and meetings (^General Booth. Hundreds of columns of 
8Qch material have been writt^i and sown l»oadcast over the country. 
Thece has also been a growing inclination to throw open the columns of 
til journals to Christian ccxitributions. 

Circulation of Christian Idterature. — The two great pub- 
lishing agencies are the Methodist PubUsbing House and the Eeiseisha, 
which publish and distribute both Japanese Christian literature, and 
general English and American literature. The volume of business of 
both houses has been large though it is difficult to obtain figures. The 
three BiUe Societies having agencies here have distriboted during 1906 
an aggregate of 293,581 copies of the scriptures, of which 12,700 were 
complete Bibles, 95,936 Testaments and 184,995 separate portions, the 
receipts from sales amounting to yen 26,911. As compared with the^ 
circulation of the scriptures during the preceding two years while the war 
was in progress, these figures appear small but as compared with 1903, 
tiie last n(xrmal year, the circulation has nearly doubled. The same is 
true to a certain extent also of the Japan Book and Tract Society with 
its- circulation of 322,444 books and taracts, or 20% more than in 1903. 

The number of Chrktian magazines «nd periodicals is increasing 
and they obtain a wide reading. 

Ku$ni'a4 PuMications. — ^The most notable publications of the 
year, aside firom periodical literature, are the several volumes of a neW^ 
series of Expositor's KUes by leading Eumi-ai pastoers, a Life of Jesu& 
h^ Mr. Hsurada, an Introduction to the Old and Kew Testaments by 
Mr. Makino, besides a number of translations of standard religious 
works. 

Mission JE^Mica^{oit««— With the co-c^eration of the Mission 
Publioatioci Committee the first five vohimes of the revised edition of Dr. 
Leomed's New Testament Commentary have been published by the 
Eeiseisha together with his large vohtme of Church History, the second. 



174 MISSION ;^EWS. 



edition of Dr. Davis' large volume of Theology, and his two smaller 
volumes of lectures given in the Theological Department of Doshisha, 
entitled respectively, "Successful Evangelistic Work" and "EevivjJs, 
their Nature and History," also a second edition of ** The Mother Play." 
Dr. Atkinson has continued the publication of Morning Light 
VTith a drculation of 42,800 copies during the year. Mission 
NewSy with a circulation of five hundred fcopies monthly, has 
•served to keep the Mission in touch with itself and with 
the Christian public abroad. Dr. Pettee has had a large hand 
in the monthly pubUcation of The Christian Endeavorer and The 
Orphan Asylum as heretofore. . Dr. Greene has prepared the fourth 
annual issue of " The Christian Movement in Japan," a most valuable 
volume to all who are interested in the deeper progreias of the nation. 



VII. ANNIVERSARIES AND VISITS OF NOTED PERSONAGES. 



Anniversaries. — In addition to the previously mentioned twen- 
tieth anniversary of the founding of Okayama Orphanage, must be 
mentioned the double anniversary, celebrated in February by the 
Naniwa, the second church of Osaka — the thirtieth of its own life 
and the twentieth of the death of its first pastor, the Bev. Paul 
Sawayama, that remarkable " Pastor of Pastors " and " Apostle of 
Self-support." The thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Heian 
church in Kyoto together with the completion of the remodeling of 
its building, was duly celebrated in October. 

Important Visits. — Among, the distinguished visitors of the 
year who .have exerted more than a local Christian influence are to be 
mentioned Dr. Howard Agnew Johnston whose work was not confined 
io the Presbyterian churches, though a representative of that body ; Prof. 
Oeo. T. Ladd of Yale whose educational work in Tokyo and Kyoto 
"Was supplemented by popular lectures in a number of places. In Osaka 
be addressed a mass meeting of some two thousand of the prominent 
citizens creating a profound religious impression. Dr. J. L. Barton of 
our own Board and Dr. Ghas. Cuthbert Hall, whose stay vras unfor- 
tunately cut short by illness ; Mr. John K. Mott and a large number 
of other distinguished del^ates to the Student Conference, among 
them Prof. E. I. Bosworth of OberKn Seminary, Karl Fries of Sweden, 



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president of the Federation, Prof. Alex. Macalister of Cambridge and 
Sir Alex. Simpson of the University of Edinburgh, as well as the delegation 
from India, are to be especially mentioned as* having contributed much 
to the progress of the Christian cause. Finally, we must record the 
six weeks visit of Gteneral Booth of the Salvation Army, whose journey 
across the country was one continuous ovation. He has been greeted 
everywhere by immense audiences who have listened to his fervent 
evangelistic message with unflagging interest. 



VIII. STATISTICS. 



The statistics are presented in three sections. The first gives a list of 
the missionaries present on the field sometime during the year (April, 
*06 to April, *07) with a general characterization of each one's work. 
By the term " Gteneral Evangelistic," as herein used, is meant, Japanese 
preaching work either within or without the local center. The second 
table presents the statistics of the educational institutions with which 
the mission is connected, for the same period as the above. The third 
table gives the main statistics published by the £umi-ai churches, in 
connection with which we work, under the Kumi-ai bukwai or districts, 
together with corresponding figures in parallel columns of the work of 
organized chapels or preaching places still under the care of the Mission. 
The two sets of figures are mutually self-exclusive. The figures for 
the preaching places of the Mission do not include local preaching 
places whose converts are enrolled with other churches. For instance, 
there are three such chapels in the city of Niigata alone. In many 
cases unfortunately, the figures for the mission's work are only approx- 
imate. These statistics are for the year extending from Jan. 1st. to Dec. 
31st, 1906, hence there will in some cases seem to be discrepancy 
between these statistics and the figures given in the body of the 
report, which are from April to April. 



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Note.— Gen. Ev. Is an abbreviation for General Evangelistic. 
E.W. „ „ Educationai Work. 



Kobe. 

Eev. John, L. Atkinscai — Business Agent, Editor of Morning Light, 

Gen. Ev. 
Miss Martha J. Barrows — E. W. in Evangelistic School, Gen. Ev. 

(See note.) 
Miss Gertrude Cozad — E. W.in Evangelistic School. 
Miss Charlotte B. DeForest— E. W. in Kobe College (In Tottori for 

study most of the year.) 
Miss Horenoe Gtordon — ^Assistant Teacher in Kobe College. 
Miss Mary A. Holbrook — E. W. in Kobe College (Returned from 

America in March.) 
Miss Annie L. Howe — Kindergarten Training. 
Miss Olive S. Hoyt— E. W. in Kobe College. 
Miss Anna H. Pettee — Associate Teacher in Kobe College. (Arrived 

in Sept.) 
Miss Susan A. Seatie — ^E. W. in and Principal of Kobe College. 
Miss Eliza Talcott — E. W. in Evangelistic Schod, Gen. Ev. 
Miss Elizabeth Torrey — Teacher of Muac in Kobe College. 

Kyoto. 

Kev. Otis Cary — ^E. W. in Doshisha and Gen. Ev. 

Mrs. Ellen M. Cary — Work for Women and Giris, and in Sunday 
Schools. 

Eev. Jerome D. Davis— E. W. in Doshisha and Gten. Ev. 

Mrs. Frances H. Davis — ^Teaching Work for Women, and in Sunday 
Schools. A 

Miss Mary F. Denton— E. W. in Doshisha. (Betumed ficom Fur- 
lough in Dec.) 

Eev. Morton D. Dunnmg — E. W. in Doshisha. Editor of Mission 
News. 

Mrs. Mary W. Dunning — Woman's Work. 

Mrs. Agnes D. Qt)rdon — Kmdergarten and Sunday School work. 

Mr. Dana I. Grover— Associate teacher in Doshisha C!ollege. 



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Eev. SSdney L. Gulksk— E. W. in Thed. Scb. Gen. Ev. (Returned 

fix)m forlough in Dec.) 
Mrs. Cara P. GtiKck — ^Woman's Work. (Returned from furloi^li ki Dec) . 
Eev. Dwight W. Learned— E. W. in Theoi. Sch. literary work. 

Mission Sec'y & Treas. 
Mrs. Florence H. Learned — Kindergarten, Sunday School, and Woman's 

Evang. 
Eev. Frank A. Lombard — E. W. in Doshisha College. 

M«eka8hi. 

Miss Fanny Griswold — Teaching and' Gen. Ev. 

Eev. Hilton Pedley— Gen. Ev. 

Mrs. Martha J. Pedley — Teaching and Wcnnan's Work. 

Matsuyama. 

Miss Cornelia Judson — Oversight of Ghrls' School and Night School, 

Gen. Ev. 
Eev. Horatio Newell — Gten. Ev. 

Mrs. Jane C. Newell — ^Woman's Work (Tjeft on furlough in June, '06). 
Miss H. Frances Parmelee — Factory GitW Home Work. Gen, Ev 

and Teaching. 
Eev. Chas. M. Warren — Language Study and Gen. Ev. 
Mrs. Cora K. Warren — ^Woman's Work. 

Miyazaki. 

Eev. Cyrus A. Clark— (Jen. Ev. 

Mkts Julia A. E. Gulick — Woman's Evang. and General. 

Eev. C. Bumell Olds — Language Study and (Sen. Ev. 

Mrs. (Jenvieve D. Olds — Language Study and Woman's Work. 

Niifata. 

Eev. Edward S. Cobb'-^Language Study and Gen. Ev. 

Mrs. Fbrence B. C!obb— Language Study and Woman's Woiic. 

Eev. William L. Curtis— Gen. Ev. 

Mrs. Gtertrude B. Curtis — (3en. Ev., Women's and Children's Work. 

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Bev. James H. Pettee— Assisting in Orphanage, 0. B. Work, Gen. 

Ev. 
Mrs, Belle W. Pettee— Woman's Work and Gen. Ev. 
Rev. Schuyler S. White— Gen Ev. 

Osaka* 

Eev. Gteo. Allchin — Gen. Ev. Music, Superintendence of Building 

Work. 
Mrs. Nellie M. Allchin — Woman's Work. 
Miss Lucy E. Case — ^E. W. in Baikwa School (On furlough since 

Oct.) 
Miss Abby M. Colby— E. W. and Music in Baikwa. 
Miss Grace Learned — Assistant Teacher in Baikwa. (Home in Kyoto.) 
Miss Elizabeth Ward — ^Language Study and E. W- in Baikwa. 

Sapporo -Otam. 

Bev. Samuel C. Bartlett— Gen. Ev. and E. W. in Gov't. School. 

Mrs. Fanny G. Bartlett— Woman's Work. 

Miss M. Adelaide Daughaday — ^Woman's Ev. and Bible Class Work. 

Eev. George M, Eowland — Gen. Ev. 

Mrs. Helen A. Eowland — ^Woman's Ev. 

Sendat 

Miss Annie H. Bradshaw — Woman's Ev. and Bible Class Work. 

(On furlough since, Nov.) 
Kev. John H. DePorest— Gen. Ev. (On furlough since Feb.) 
Mrs. Elizabeth S. DeForest — Woman's Ev. (On furlough since 

Feb.) 

Tokyo. 

Bev. D. Crosby Greene — CJomlnittee and Pub. Work and Gen. Ev. 
Mrs. Mary J. Greene — Music and Woman's Ev. 
Mrs. Ida M. White— Teaching (Temporarily absent from Okayama 
for children's education.) 

Tottori. 

Eev. Henry J. Bennett — (jren. Ev. 

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Miss C. B. DeForest — (Absent from K. C. for language study part 

of the year.) 
Mrs. Amanda A. Walker — (Absent from K. C. for language study 

for the year.) 

Missionaries absent on fnrlousfi through the entire year or more. 

Kev. Wallace Taylor, Mrs. Mary S. Taylor, and Miss Mary Daniels- 
Osaka. 
Mrs. Harriet G. Clark — Miyazaki. 
Miss Mary E. Waiwright — Okayama. 

Missionaries under Appointment. 

Eev. Arthur W. Stanford, Mrs. Jennie P. Stanford, Miss Julia 
Hocking. 



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KYOTO, JAPAN, S FT. IStb, 1907. 



Ko. 1. 



CONTENTS. 

Gknebal Notes. 

DosHisHA Theological School. 

The Kobe Womans* Evangelistic 

School Miss Cozad. 

On the "Otttlook" G. M. Rowland. 

The Y.MCA. Ck)»FERENCE C. B. Olds. 

Summer in Eabuizawa ...M. D. Dunning. 

KuLiNG Jottings Charlotte DeForest. 

Flood and Fiee M. D. Dunning. 

ItEHB of lNTER]ffiT FbOM Dt. DeFoREST. 
COKCEBNINO TbI-ChURCH UnION. 

General Notes. 

Dr. and Mrs. Taylor are expected in 
the late fall. 

:{: ^ >): ^ :{: 

Mr. and Mrs. Stenford arrived on the 
" Manchuria " the last of August We 
j^ve them a cordial welcome back to 
their work in Japan. 

* * * * 

Mr. and Mrs. Pedley and party reach- 
ed Vancouver on the evening of June 
seventeen after a quiet trip. Their 
address will be Auburndale, Mass. 

* * * * 

Mrs. S. 8. White and children sailed 
on the "China" early in July. Her 
address in the Stetes will be 325 West 
10th St. Columbus, Ohio. 

Miss Daughaday sailed for America 
the last of August. Her address in the 
States during her Airlough will be 629 
Third Av^ue, North Troy, Now York. 



Miss Charlotte DeForest has spent the 
summer with her dfster in China. Miss 
Barrows sailed from Kobe July eleventh. 
For the present she expects to lie with 
her sister and her address will be 
Maquoketa, Iowa. 

:<c :]( ^ ^ 

It is expected that Miss Julia Hock- 
ing, under appointment for work in the 
Woman's Bible School in Kobe, will 
sail on the " Korea " from San Fran- 
cisco on the twenty-fourth. She will 
land at Yokohama and enter Mr. 
Matsuda's language school in Tokyo. • 

:{« * )J: * 

In June three of the Mission CTiildiren 
finished their college work. Louise Hyde 
DeForest at Smith, Stanley Danforth 
Allchin and Greorge Emerson Cary at 
Amherst. Mr. Allchin is to teach*' a 
year in Concord, Mass., and Mr. Cary 
has a Fellowship at the South End 
House in Boston. Elizabeth Pettee 
has accepted a teacher's position in the 
High School in Nutley, N. J. for 
the coming year. 

* * * * 

Mr. Grovor has received conditional 
appointment to Japan, the appointment 
being made in this way because some of 
his preliminary papers had not yet been 
filled out and received by the Board. 
He has also received a scholarship from 
Cliieago Univei'sity where he will spend 
his year of furlough in further study. 
He is expected back in Japan a year 
from this month. In the meantime 
Rev. Mr. Crecelius, of the United Bre- 
thren Mission, will take part of Mr. 
Grover's work in DOshishaiOOQic 



MISSION NEWS. 



At the annual mission meeting in Ari- 
ma last spring the Standing Committee 
of the Kumi-ai Churches asked that a 
missionary might be sent to Korea to 
aid in the work there. Dr. Davis of 
Kyoto placed himself at the disposal of 
the Standing Committee and they 
unanimously and enthusiastically asked 
him to visit Korea. With Mrs. Davis he 
expects to leave Japan about the twen- 
tieth of this month. They will be gone 
about six weeks, most of the time being 
spent in Seoul, where there is a Kumi-ai 
Church under the care of Mr. Kemotsu, 
and in Ping Yang, where Mr. Yamada 
has just gone. 

* * * * 

Mr. and Mrs. Allchin were pleasantly 
surprised during the morning of June 
29th by representatives of the Mission, 
who, in spite of rain and wmd, marched 
into the garden singing a song composed 
for the occasion of the twenty-fifth 
anniversary of a wedding day. The com- 
pany brought with them a bountiful 
lunch which was soon spread in the 
dining-room, the feast being presided 
over by our genial pastor. Dr. Pettee, 
who also read letters, telegrams, and 
poems sent for the occasion. Dr. 
Learned, on behalf of the Mission, pre- 
sented a silver vase filled with over ^fty 
half yen pieces as a slight token of the 
T^ard in which Mr. and Mrs. Allchin 
are held. Later in the afternoon the 
Osaka Recreation Club met in the same 
place to. offer congratulations on the 
happy event. 

* 5K Ji« * 

The members of the Deputation to 
China, Drs. Barton and Moore, arrived in 
Kobe, July 10th. After a few hours for 
inspection of new buildings and consulta- 
tions they pressed on to Kyoto meeting 
the members of that station at supper 
that evening and the Japanese friends 
the following morning. Altho urged 
to remain they felt that they must reach 
Tokyo not later than Saturday evening. 
The best laid plans of Deputations, even, 
must of necessity give way to washouts 



on the road and Saturday evening found 
them not in Tokyo but, — quietly sitting 
on the floor of a Japanese hotel in 
Shidzuoka and eating their supper with 
chop-sticks. Aft»r a delay of twenty- 
four hours they were taken out to sea 
and around to Numadzu by steamer. 

Both gentlemen found themselves very 
tired after the long months %f strenuous 
work in China and were glad of a few 
days of quiet in Nikko whither they 
went to prepare their reports and to 
bring up over-due correspondence. They 
left Tsuruga, July 27th for Vladivostock 
expecting to cross Siberia by train. 

5f! * * * 

A year ago the Kindergarten Un'on 
of Japan was organised in Karuizawa 
with the object of bringing those engaged 
in Kindergarten work in Japan into 
closer touch with each other and with 
the Kindergarten movement in America. 
An excellent annual report has just been 
issued giving a brief account of the 
nineteen Kindergartens connected with 
the Union, and fifteen beautiful collotype 
pictures showing the Kindergaiiens and 
theii; work. Copies may be had for 
twenty-five cents by addressing Miss 
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Kobe, Japan, and enclosing the amount 
in stamps. 



Doshisha Theological School. 

The graduating exercises of the school 
were held on the fifth of last July in the 
presence of an audience that filled the 
chapel. President Harada addressed 
the graduating class, composed of five 
men, and Rev. Kakichi Tsunashima 
gave the address of the day. 

At the close of the exercises Presi<lent 
Harada gave announcement of a few 
changes that had been decided upon 
in the work of the school. 

Hereafter the full course of study will 
cover five years, the first two of which 
will be in the nature of preparatory work 
and the last three will be more strictly 
theological 8tud^.^^^y Google 



MISSION NEWS. 



8 



Abo the school year will open in 
April, at the same time that the other 
departments of DOshisha open, instead of 
q)enmg in October as in the past. As 
one result of this change there will be no 
graduating class from the Theological 
School next spring. 

Furthermore it is hoped that the work 
ol the The«iogical School and the present 
Semmon Gakko may be partially co- 
ordinated so that the theological students 
may have the advantage of some of the 
English, psychological, and philosophical 
work given in the latter school. 



The Kobe Womans' Evangel- 
istic School. 

The year 1906-7 has been an unusual 
one in the history of the Kobe Womans* 
Evangelistic School, a year of partings, 
of changes, of plans and hopes for the 
future. 

Within this year Miss Dudley, in 
whose heart and brain the school had its 
inception more than a score of years 
ago, has been called Home but shQ still 
lives in the lives of many women whom 
she has inspired with a desire to lead 
others to Christ and her influence will 
go down in an evei^widening stream 
thru the history of the church in Japan. 

Miss Barrows, who worked hand in 
hand with her from the early days, com- 
pleted thirty-one years of service and on 
Juno 13th sailed for home to take a 
well earned furlough. It was delightful 
to soe the warm appreciation of her life 
and services which were called out at 
the time of her departure. It seemed 
during the protracted period of farewell 
meetings as if there would not be enough 
lefk of her to depart, but the same quiet 
graciousness that lias seen her thru 
these thirty years made even the fare- 
well meetings happy occasions. 

We have also said farewell to our 
thirteenth graduating class consisting of 
four women all of whom have entered 
upon their work well-equipped, each one 



having had considerable experience in 
the work as well as the training in the 
school. 

These four bring the number of our 
graduates up to sixty-nine, sixty-four of 
whom are living, and forty-four have 
been in the direct work this year. Be- 
sides these there are quite a number of 
former pupils who are not graduates 
who are doing earnest Christian work, 
many of them as pastors* wives. 

The demand for workers was never 
greater than it is now and it seems as if 
die few who have gone out were absorb* 
ed in the work and there were just as 
many who were asking for helpers. The 
women who go out hold places of respect 
in the churches and communities to 
which they go and there is a disposition 
on the part of those who employ them 
to pay them good salaries, so there is 
abundant opportunity for women of con- 
secration, of innate ability, and a fkir 
education to enter* upon a life of great 
influence and happy usefulness. 

There was an element of sadness and 
also an element of hope and gladness in 
the thought that this was to be the last 
graduating in the dear old building on 
the back street which has housed the 
school for twenty years. The building 
has l)een sold to the Kobe Church who 
will rebuild it on land in the rear of 
their Church for Sabbath School and 
parish work so it will still continue to be 
used for the purpose for which the money 
was given, as a Bible School Already 
the disorder and desolation caused by 
demolished buildings and felled trees on 
our home lot tells the tale of our hopes 
for better quarters within the present 
year. 

As we have said farewell to former 
teachers our thoughts are reaching for- 
ward in welcome to the new ones who 
are soon to be with us. Mrs. Stanford, 
who with Mr. Stanford arrived in Yoko- 
hama, Aug. 26th, is to be with us and 
Miss Julia Hocking \s expected to sail 
from San Francisco on September twenty- 
fourth. We look forward to sharing the 
work with her 3^r^|l^ has devoted 



MISSION NEWS. 



three or four years to language study 
and evangelistic work. 

Miss Cozad. 



On the "Outlook." 

It was my privilege as a member of 
the Outlook and Evangelistic Committee 
to spend the month of June in the 
"Central Provinces." Eight years 
residence in these regions twenty years 
ago, first at Okayama and later at 
Tottori, made those mountains and 
valleys familiar ground. 

There was a large number of well- 
remembered faces. There were not a 
few warm friends. There were several 
former pupils. Mr. Bennett took me to 
each place in the Tottori field, Mr. 
White to each in that of Tsuyama, and 
Dr. Pettee to all but three of the ten 
places visited in the Okayama region. 
The first part of the trip was with Drs. 
Creegan and Hitchcock to assist them on 
their tour of observation. The Tottori 
ladies also accompanied us as far as 
their home. Everywhere the welcome 
was cordial Thirty addresses, five in- 
terpretations, with the usual receptions, 
interviews, and visiting filled the time 
full. The whole month was one of 
unprecedented interest and joy. 

Impressions received of the regions 
wited were distinct and varied — 

Tottori field is calling. Despite the 
years of missionary effort put in there, 
comparatively little impression has been 
made on the section itself Many Chris- 
tians, many Christian workers have 
been made and turned out into the wide 
field and the impression, tho slight com- 
paratively speaking, is absolutely not 
inconsiderable. No dthor Protestant 
mission is there. The Japan Missionary 
Society is not there. There is only one 
self supporting church and that is weak, 
pastorless, and not aggresbive. The 
call of the field is urgent. 

Tsuyama field is white to the harvest. 
The people are responsive to the preach- 



ing of the truth and to a considerable 
degree may be said to be seeking. 
Special evangelistic meetings were in 
progress at Kuse and in Tsuyama, So 
ready are the people, that in connectioD 
with the one service in the church three 
persons declared their decision to enter 
the way. 

In the Okayama region the G<apel ts 
planted. In Okayama city, as in few 
other places in Japan, local and native 
influences and agencies are at work on 
the great problem of leavening Sodety. 
Recent and striking amongst these is the 
Oriental Evangelizing Society (Toyo 
Den^6 Kwai) whose members, chiefly 
laymen and laywomen, are giving them- 
selves, Bible in hand, to personal eflTort 
for individuals. 

And such a hill town as Takahashi 

t 7,000 (?)] has its church, its Christian 
kindergarten, its Christian Girls* School 
just planning for enlargement with a 
grant-in-aid of yen 4,600 for equipmpjit 
from the Prefectural Exchequer. The 
Middle School also has for its princijal 
a man of earnest. Christian faith. 

This Okayama r^ion is by no means 
evangelized. But to a considerable 
extent the Gospel may be said to have 
taken root. 

George M. Rowland. 



The Y.M,C,A. Conference. 

The 1907 Conference of Y.M.C.A. 
English teachers held in Subashiri Aug. 
22-27 will always be remembered as one 
of unusual spiritual power and practical 
helpfulness. ^ 

The committee was fortunate in the 
choice of location, even tho the con- 
ference .was timed so as to exactly oo-in- 
cido with the five days of continuous 
rain which resulted in one of the most 
disastrous floods of recent years. In spite 
of the inconvenience, however, more than 
forty men came together, and the fellow- 
ship was all the closer because of the 
freedom from outside distraction. 



MISSION NEWS. 



The purpose of the coDferenoe was two 
fold : — to provide better equipment to the 
new English teachers for their two kinds 
of work, — educational and religious. In 
pursuance of this plan the first three 
days took the form of an educational 
institute, and in this department the con- 
tributions of JProf. Sweet of Tokyo and 
Prof. Cady of Kyoto were of the highest 
order. But it is of the religious section 
only that I am able to make any report 
Beginning with Sunday came the spirit- 
ual feast. Each of the ensuing three 
day's sessions was opened with a Bible 
hour conducted by the secretaries in turn, 
followed by symposiums on topics con- 
nected with the direct religious work of 
the teachers. Three such symposiums, 
of two hours each, were held on the 
general topics of " Bible Class Work for 
Students", "Methods and Aims inPeiv 
eonal Work," and "Getting Close to 
Students." Each of these main topics 
was subdivided and the special topics 
presente<l briefly by one of the students, 
followed by crisp, practical discussion. 
These discussions formed the cream of 
the conference, and the information 
elicited regarding conditions under which 
work must be done, and methods that had 
been successfully employed in meeting 
these conditions, was of a nature to prove 
extremely valuable not only for these 
teachers of English but for all dther 
Chriiftian workers who had the privilege 
of attonding these meetings. Among 
other special features of the conference 
was a vital sermon on " The Supernatu- 
ral Christ " bv Dr. Davis on Sunday 
morning, a fellowship meeting on " The 
Moral and Social Atmosphere of Japan" 
also led by Dr. Davis, a strong address, 
on the " Resurrection of Jesus Christ" by 
Mr. Hamilton of the Canadian Episoo* 
palian Mission, and an address by Mr. 
Varaamoto, General Secretary of the 
Tokyo Association, in which he spoke of 
the impulses and considerations that had 
lod him to accept the Christian faith. 

It is hardly necessary to dwell upon 
the student good fellowship that marked 
the conferenoe, but it was delightlul. It 



is FufHcient to say that on one afternoon 
there was rendere<l one of the good, old- 
fashioned, impromptu college student pro- 
grams of " stunts," and the reader can 
imagine that it was no tame affair. 
Again, a successful climb of Fuji at the 
close of the conference, under the best of 
conditions, by thirteen of the members was 
not one of the least memorable features 
of the occasion. 

But the great outstanding impression 
of the conference is of the exceeding spirit- 
ual value received. Fuji San disclosed 
her sublimest grandeur to us only onoe 
during the sessions but we were never 
able to lose the consciousness that 
we were constantly overshadowed by her 
mighty presence. In the same way, 
tho there were moments of special 
revealing, we never could forget for an 
hour that we were in the immediate 
presence of the great personal Power 
that rules the universe. 

It was an inspiration for us who were 
there. I could but wish that every 
young missionary of every Board in 
Japan might sometime, early in bis 
career here, have just such a training 
and just such a spiritual uplift as is 
given each summer to these college stu- 
dents who come out tp teach English in 
Japanese Middle Schools, impelled chief- 
ly by the love of Christ and the desire 
to do his work. 

C. B. Olds. 



Summer in Karuizawa. 

The usual large number of missionaries 
and foreigners, totaling well up toward a 
thousand, from Japan, Korea, and 
China, gathered in Karuizawa for the 
six or eight weeks of extremely hot 
weather during July and August The 
time was filled with conventions and 
special meetings so that bardly a day 
passed without a meeting of some kind, 
morning, afternoon, and evening in the 
largo auditorium which was built last 
year. 



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MISSION NEWS. 



Speoial mention should be made of the 
meetings for the deepening of spiritual 
life which \ieg^n on the evening of the 
third of August and continued thru the 
evening of the eleventh. These meetings 
were held on the order of those oonducted 
at Keswiok, England. They were held 
under the direction of Bev. Greorge 
Litchfield and Rev. Gregory Mantle, the 
latter of whom came from England for 
this speoial purpose. The meetings were 
well attended and were very helpful 
Christ Church was crowded at the 
morning Bibte Readings and the much 
larger Auditorium was well filled at the 
eveoing praver-meetings. Similar meet- 
ings were later held at Grotemba and 
Arima, plaoes where foreigners also 
gather during the summer. 

Outdoor recreations received their full 
share of attention. The tennis-courts 
were crowded on all pleasant days, and 
picnic parties were organised to visit 
various pomts of interest near by. 

The value to the missionaries of these 
six or eight weeks of fellowship together 
can hardly be overestimated. Fully 
half of them live in inland towns and 
cities, oftentimes .being the only foreign- 
ers residing in these places, seeing no 
other foreigners for weeks and months at 
a time. The few weeks of the summer 
is their time for fellowship with other 
missionaries and the gaining of strength 
and inspiration for another year's work. 



Ruling Jottings. 

1. The Trip to Ruling. 

The first stage by ocean steamer to 
Shangliai being over, the second took me 
lour hundred and sixty miles up the 
Yangtsie in the Chinese first-class of a 
Japanese river-steamer. (It is interest- 
ing to note that onlv one line besides 
the Nisshin Kisen Kaisha allows Euro- 
peans to take Cliinese passage.) We 
touched at many places of interest in 
Ihoee two days and a half: Chenkiang, 
where the Grand Canal connects the 



Yangtsze with Peking; Nanking, where 
old and new met as the gray walls of 
hundreds of years' standing looked down 
upon the workmen on the railroad to be 
finished next year from Shanghai ; Wuhu, 
a large open port fifth in revenue 
amongst the ports in China; Nanking, 
scene of the recent assassination of Gov- 
ernor En Min, and location of one of 
the training schools for the missiooaries 
of the China Inland Mission ; and Kiuki- 
ang, the open port whence a fifteen mile 
ride by chair takes one across the plain 
and up three thousand feet and more to 

2. KuLiNQ Itself, 
the breathing place of the Central China 
missionaries. More properly I should 
sa^ " Kuling Estate ", as it is called, for 
this large settlement cf nine hundred and 
ninety-nine foreigners (according to the 
census taken August 3rd) dwelling in 
stone bungalows scattered for two or 
three miles over the almost treeless slopes 
of this once sacred mountain,-this large 
settlement is in its ofiidal status mer^j 
so much land rented on a long lease to 
foreigners, and is not even a ooncesnon,- 
an anomaly even in this land of anoma- 
luos foreign relationships. As for the 
temperature, Kuling, lying between the 
twenty-ninth and thirtieth degrees of 
latitude is, I think, somewhat wanner 
than Karuizawa, in spite of a higher 
altitude. The prevailing pith hat and 
oolored glasses, and the existence of 
the Kuling Anglo-American School iar 
foreign cUldren, open from April to 
Chri^maas, testify to the sub-tropical 
climate of the country from which Kuling 
draws its patrons. 

3. KuuNG Activities. 
Kuling will stand a close second to its 
Japanese counterpart, Karuizawa, in the 
variety of its summer life. Tramps, 

? ionics, teas, conferences, concerts, ana a 
'ennis tournament are common to both ; 
but Kulmg has also its " Kuling Day '*, 
the annual children's athletic sports at 
the school; and a day of competitive 
aquatic sports at the "Duck Pond", 
formed bv damming up the biook whidi 
is the diildren's principal jday-gyound. 



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Ab fbr meetings, a Keswick DetMita- 
tum ooDsistiiig of Mr. Walter 8JoaD, 
Asristant Home Director of the China 
Inland Mission, and Rev. Mr. Webster 
of All Souls' Church, West End, London, 
held a six days' convention that was a 
great spiritual uplift to many ; a Woman's 
Conference sat for three sessions on 
Medical, Evangelistic, and Rescue Work 
for Women ; the Ruling Medical Mission 
for the Chinese held office hours mom- 
ingt and evangelistic meetings evenmgs, 
in addition to which there were the regular 
weekly Chinese services, — ^a men's meet- 
ing, a woman's meeting, and a general 
prouthing service, in the Kuling Union 
Church. There is but one church in 
Kuling; the union form of service is 
occasionally varied by a liturgical one. 
It is a privilege and a stimulus to come 
in contact thru the Sunday sermons with 
men who are helping to mold the future 
of China. American Board missionaries 
there are none, this not being an Ameri- 
can Board belt, but the Yale mission, 
allied to the American Board, is present 
abnoet in toto. 

But among Kuling activities one of 
the most interesting, — perhaps even 
epoch-making, — ^institutions is the Lan- 
guage School for the study of Chinese, 
into whi<^ the Y. M. C. A. secretaries 
have banded themselves for four months. 
Each roan brings a teacher from the 
locality whose language he is studying 
and most of his school time is spent with 
bis teacher alone in his study at the 
aohooL In class exercises, however, he 
takes his teacher with him to add, in an 
undertone, the necessary " local color" to 
the general information imparted. Thus 
five dialects are being successfully taught. 
There are two class exercises a day, the 
one in the morning, given to the study 
of the writing and use of the character, 
being conducted by the head of the school, 
Mr. D. Willard Lyon, Associate General 
Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. for China; 
the afternoon class runs thru a weekly 
program of conversation, Chinese eti- 
quette, Chinese geography, and a lecture 
by 90i9e outsider. Such of these lectures 



as have been thrown open to the public 
have 1)een the only general lectures of 
the season, of such interest as Mr. 
Harlan P. Beach, Profe«8or of Missions, 
at Yale, on " The Missionary's Attitude 
toward the Native Religions", and Rev. 
Arnold Foster, an L. M. S. veteran 
from Hankow, on **The Missionary's 
Attitude toward the Chinese". 

Charlotte DeForest. 



Flood and Fire. 

During the last week of August 
Japan was visited by a disastrous 
tvphoon which caused extraordinary 
floods. Rivulets became raging torrents 
and rivers became broad lakes. 

In the mountainous sections north and 
west of Tokyo mountain-slides were in- 
numerable. The hill which did not show 
at least one slide was hardly larger than 
a good-sized mole-hill. In many places 
houses and people were buried under 
these slides and great sections of railroad 
were 8ul)merged, buried under debris, or 
completely washed away. 

I personally walked over a part of the 
most damaged district between Otsuki 
and Yensan, a district lying north-west 
from Tokyo. All the railroad bridges 
were gone, often the stone piers and 
heavy iron work could still be seen, 
more or less buried, in what had once 
been the center of a small stream while 
the river had changed its bed, going both 
sides of the bridge, burying the fields 
under rocks and boulders, entirely sweep- 
ing away the railroad embankment 

The iron frame work of one bridge, at 
least twenty feet in height by a hundred 
feet in length had been lifted bodily and 
carried two or three hundred feet down 
stream and placed, still upright, on a 
stretch of gravel and rocks. 

At Hatsukari I walked over a slide 
under which forty houses and twenty- 
five (one roan said twenty-seven) people 
were buried and in two or three other 
places I walked over slides under which 



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from one to a dozen houses and from one 
to eight people were buried. 

Acres upon acres and even miles of 
rice and mulberry fields had been swept 
away ; other fields had been buried from 
one to twenty feet under sand, gravel, 
and boulders ; while at Yenzan we could 
look over the plain and see miles of 
country buried under three converging 
rivers until it seemed one vast lake. 

The one thing which surprised me 
most in the midst of all this destruction 
was that the people were going about 
their usual employments as if nothing 
had happened. In houses adjoining those 
that had been buried, or in houses which 
had themselves been badly damaged, the 
women were sitting at the looms un- 
concernedly weaving. And this within 
a day or two after tlie disaster. 

W hen the typhoon was at its height, 
fire broke out in the large city of 
Hakodate. With such a gale blowing 
it was impossible to get the fire under 
control and in a few hours four- 
fifths of the city was in ashes and forty 
to fifty thousand people homeless. Four 
of the five Christian churches in the city 
were destroyed, only a small episcopal 
chapel being saved. 

Such storm, flood, and fire are entirely 
without precedent. The destruction of 
property has been enormous and the loss 
of life runs well into the hundreds but 
the railroads are being rapidly rebuilt, 
the city will speedily rise from its ashes, 
and the people are quietly proceeding 
with their usual occupations. The man- 
ner in which the people have met and 
are meeting these disasters shows the 
true metal of which they are made. 

M. D. Dunning. 



Items of Interest from 
Dr. Deforest. 

(Dr. and Mrs. DeForest left Japan 
last February for their furlough in the 
States going by way of China and the 
Suez Canal. Dr. DeForest sent from 



London an account of their trip to that 
city and afterwards an account of a daj 
spent with General Kuroki in a visit to 
Cambridge, Mass. These accounts 
arrived too late for the June issue of 
Mission News and were crowded out of 
the July issue by the Annual Report. 
The parts which are still of interest are 
given below. Ed. Mission News). 

(The London Letteb). 

Our two weeks in China, where 

we were for the most part the guests ci 
the Y.M.C.A. people, and where we did 
the three cities Shanghai, Nanking, and 
Soochow, were a revelation to us of the 
large educational and medical work of 
various missions, of the wide unrest in 
China, and of the dislike of Japan in 
China by both merchants and mi&- 
sionarics. 

From Hongkong to Singapore 

and India and Egypt the power and 
blessing of English influence were wonder- 
fully marked. 

We had twelve days in France 

and Geneva at the foot of Mont Blanc 
We enjoyed, more than words can tell, 
the castles and cathedrals, the hills and 
plains, and the most beautiful citv of the 
world, of which Hugo and Zola have 
written so vividly. But we enjoyed yet 
more the people we met, Chas. Wagner, 
D'Aubign6, and our American Church 
pastor, Mr. Goodrich. 

We crossed the channel, mosdy 

on a level with the cushions while 
crossing, and have had two weeks of this 
biggest city in the world. Of course we 
have glanced at what took ages of strife 
and peace to make — ^\Vestminister 
Abbey and St. Paul's Cathed^ial. We 
have met such men as Drs. Morgan and 
Horton, and have heard them as well 
as the greatest preacher, — Campbell All 
their churches are fiill and as many men 
as women appear, sometimes more. We 
have been at Exeter Hall and at the 
Council Meeting of the London Miij- 
sionary Society and received a oordial 
introduction to the assemblies. 

••..«.What impresses me in Franoe.is 



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the contest between a belated Church 
and a progressive government, and 
the Church is badly left. England 
seems to me to be a wonderfully Christian 
nation, but the priestly side of things is 
being overhauled by the prophetic 
side. 

In all our trip our hearts have 

liarked back to dear Japan often, and 
to the great work God is doing thera 
He is in France and England too, and 
we expect to find and enjoy his presence 
in our own native land soon. 

With love to all missionaries and 
churches in Japan, 

J. H. DeForeot. 

(With General Kuroki). 

What impressions General Kuroki 

had of Yale I do not know, but after he 
had seen that superlatively splendid 
medical department of Harvard, visited 
the stadium that seats nearly forty 
thousand persons, viewed a thousand of 
the students at dinner in Memorial Hall, 
lunched in that spacious Harvard Union, 
rested a few moments in Alpha Delta 
Phi HaII, and afterwards heard, from 
the entire student body, Harvard's 
cheers each ending with an ex- 
plosive "KuBOKi!", I half suspected 
he might be secretly thinking that 
Harvard can go Yale one better, which 
of course would be a big heresy. (Dr. 
DeForest is a Yale graduate. Ed.) 

In a ten minute conversation with 
Greneral Kuroki I mentioned that the 
war correspondent. Palmer, had excep- 
tionally praised the Sendai troops. He 
replied that he always felt easy when 
the Sendai soldiers were engaged with 
the enemy. When I expressed my 
satisfaction that he would sail from 
Seattle and not from San Francisco, he 
very innocently replied, "Yes, afber 
that earthquake there wouldn't be much 
to see." And when I switched him 
onto my track by saving, — " I referred to 
that other earthquake — the expulsion of 
Japanese from the schools," he minimis- 
ed the whole thing with a wave of his 
hand as tho it were not worth mention- 



ing. " O, that's a mere local affair." 

There is some curiosity on the part of 
the people around hero as to the motive 
of the General's journey. Some suspect 
that he is ordered to ascertain the real 
feelings of America towards the Japan<> 
ese. If so, the spontaneous welcome he 
gets everywhere will be one pcnnter for 
him. The other one will be what he 
learns in the purely Japanese feasts with 
his follow oountrymen. And in my 
judgement these two pointers will not b% * 
veiy inharmonious. 

The Grenerals I rode with were 
apparently the most interested, at least 
the most surprised, in the tame squirrels 
that whisked thoir huge tails across the 
lawns and that were on sudi friendly 
relations with young ladies who happen^ 
ed to have nuts and candy on tsap. 
" Why I that's a squirrel I Why don't 
they shoot 'em! That's what we do in 
our country ! " 



Concerning Tri-Church Union. 

Four representatives of the Methodist 
Protestant and United Brethren in 
Christ Missions were in attendance, upon 
invitation, at the thirty-fifth annual 
meeting of the American &>ai'd's Japan 
Mission held at Arima, Japan, May 
23-28, 1907. 

The question of union was carefully 
considered, the project favored and a 
committee appointed by the American 
Board's Mission to unite with the dele- 
gates of the other Missions in preparing 
a letter to the Home Boards. 

Herewith is appended 

The Lettek. 

To the Fordgn Missionary Sodeties 
of tho Congregational, Methodist Pro- 
testant and United Brethren in Christ 
denominations in America, 
Fathers and Brethren, 

We, your representatives engaged 
in missionary service in Japan, have 
watched with keenest interest the pro* 



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gress toward union already made by the 
churches which you and we represent. 
Appreciating the advantages of such a 
union in hastening the establishment of 
Christ's kingdom among men we have 
prayed heartily for its consummation. 

Engaged as we are in foreign mission* 
ary service we experience in a special 
manner the disadvantages of separate or- 
ganizations and work. These tend to pre- 
vent the most economical use of mission 
funds and forces. The apparent divi- 
sions and antagonisms of Christian sects 
are hard to explain to those among 
whom we labor. Real jealousies and 
interferences inevitably arise at times. 
Unessential differences are magnified and 
attention and eflR)rt are correspondingly 
withdrawn from the main work of Chris- 
tian missions. The sympathy, inspiration 
and efieotiveness that would result from 
a ifrider fellowship and a larger unity in 



plan and organized effott far outwetgli in 
our judgement the advantages arisiiig 
from separate organizations. 

We therefore desire to express an 
earnest hope that the contemplated 
union between the three bodies may be 
duly consummated in America and 
especially that it may be made possible 
to unite under one joint organizatiun 
their missionary work in Japatk. 

Yours most respectfully, 

Cyrus A. Clark, Miyazaki. 

James H. Pettee, Okayama. 

U. G. Murphy, Nagoya. 

F. A. Peery, Shizuoka. 

Monroe Crbcelius, Tokyo. 

Alfred T. Howard, Tokyo. 
In bdialf of the American Board, the 
Methodist Protestant and the United 
Brethren in Christ Missions in Japan. 

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CONTENTS. 

Genkral Notes. 

Map. 

Hokkaido G. M. Rowland. 

Thy. Bec4 inning of the American 
Board's Mission Work in Hok- 
kaido Torao Tanaka. 

Our Oldest Church G. M. R. 

Sapporo Mrs. Rowland. 

The Station Since 1897 G. M. R. 

A Junket in Teshio G. M. R. 

Christian Prison Chaplains. 

Kusuke Tomeoka. 

A Pilgrim Colony ^. G. M. R. 

Touring in the Hokkaido... S. C. Bartlett. 

Otaru Mrs. Bartlett. 

Our Newest Field G. M. R. 

A Great Calamity G. M. R. 

Other Christian Work G. M. R. 

The Jimmu Tenno Festival in 

MiYAZAKI C. B. Olds. 

The Japanese ^i ation in Evolution. 

A book review. 



General Notes. 

As will be noted by glancing at the 
table of contents a large proportion of 
tbis issue of the paper has l)een prepared 
by Dr. Rowland of the Sapporo Station 
and he has also largely shared in the 
planning of it. We hope that this num- 
ber of the News will give our readers a 
new and more accurate idea of the Hok- 
kaido and the work that is being carried 
on there than they have ever had before 
and that it will give them a deeper 
interest in that work. The articles en- 
titled " A Pilgrim Colony," " Touring 
in the Hokkaido," and the articles writ- 
ten by Mr. Tanaka and Mr. Tomeoka 
arc especially worthy of notice. 
^ ^ ^ ^ 

The Lowell Congregational Church of 
Lowell, Mass. has become financially 
responsible for Tottori Station to the 
amount of five hundred dollars. 

* 5K * * 

The new chapel for Kobe College is 
almost finished and ready for occupancy. 
The dedication ceremonies are planned 
for this month and we hope an account 
of them will appear in the next issue of 
the News. 



Dr. and Mrs. Taylor arrived in Kobe 
last month just as Mission News was 
going to press and thus notice of their 
arrival was omitted. They are now 
once more settled in Osaka, temporarily 
living in No. 26. It is more than fifteen 
years since Mrs. Taylor returned to 
America to make a home for their chil- 
dren there while Dr. Taylor continued 
his work in Osaka. We are glad that 
Mrs. Taylor is once more able to be with 
her husband and share in the work here. 

:}: ;ic :}c :{! 

During the latter part of November 
the Kumi-ai Churches held special evan- 
gelistic meetings in Kyoto. The Heian 
and Shijo Churches united in carrying 
for^^ard this work and many Japanese 
pastors from different parts of the coun- 
try shared in it. As a direct result of 
these meetings one hundred and sixty- 
eight ])eople were baptised in the two 
churches and twenty others united by 
letter. 

^ :j: :}c :}c 

Rev. and Mrs. O. H. Gulick's adopted 
daughter Katherine arrived in Kobe on 
the Prinzess Alice last month anrl was 
married to Mr. Frederic Ciiarles Wood- 
rough. The ceremony was performed at 
the Episcopal Church by the Rev. Mr. 
Piatt. Their address, at present, is 
Tokyo Hotel, Atago Hill, Tokyo, Mr. 
Woodrough is a teacher in the Higher 
TechnicalSchool in TokyO. 

;;t 5j: :^ :}: 

With this issue of Mission News Mrs. 
Cary and Mr. Dunning give over into 
other hands the responsibility that has 
been theirs for the paper. We wish to 
thank all the members of the Mission for 
the cordial response that they have given 
to calls for articles. Many of these 
articles have been written in the midst of 
manifold duties that called for immediate 
attention so that we are the more deeply 
grateful for the hearty suppoit that has 
been given to us. We can wish our 
successors nothing better than a con- 
tinuance of this support which we are sure 
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Hokkaido. 

Hokkaido is the Yezo of a few 
decades ago. It is a bit larger than 
Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massa- 
shusetts combined. It has a population 
of twelve million of which seventeen 
thousand are the hairy aboriginal Ainu. 
Its development has been almost entire- 
ly during the forty years of the Meiji 
£Ira. 

The island is rich in its fisheries, its 
mineral stores (especially bituminous 
coal), and in its lumbering, grazing, and 
agricultural resources. 

The climate is that of New England, 
forbidding to all but the most energetic 
people of the milder Japan Proper. And 
so it comes that we have an enterprising, 
immigrant population that is pushing to 
the wall the gentle Ainu, developing the 
natural resources, and building a new 
state. Japan got here some of the 
lessons of hardihood, some of the trained 
soldiers and tough horses that helped 
her most to fight victoriously in the 
vigorous climate of Manchuria. 

Here character is being formed. 
Here Christianity is exerting an influ- 
ence, we believe far greater proportion- 
ally than in the more conservative 
Japan Proper. Here there is room and 
a call for all and more than we are 
likely to be able to do. Here and now 
is an opportunity for American friends 
to lend a hand most effectively by 
prayers and gifts. 

George M. Rowland. 



The Beginning of the American 

Board's Mission Work in 

Hokkaido. 

The Evangelistic Work of the A.B.C. 
F.M. in Hokkaido was begun in 1892. 
Before this time, however, several young 
christians of the Kami-ai Church came 
as moral instructors in the prisons. These 
men came as pioneers of the Kumi-ai 
work in Hokkaido. 



In the summer of 1892 Rev. W. W. 
Curtis and I came to begin our work. 
First we came to Sapporo, where our 
friends were working in connection with 
the [ndependent Chifrch ; Mr. Takeno- 
uchi was the acting pastor. This church 
had some outstatiou work at Iwamizawa 
and Ichikishiri, so we went to see these 
places. Mr. Tomeoka was at Ichikishiri 
as a moral instructor in the prison. 
He and his friends were doing a fine 
Evangelistic Work in that little town. 
Mr. Hara was at Kabato. There too 
was an Independent Church, and he was 
working in connection with it. Mr. Curtis 
visited several other places this year 
besides these two. 

The next year — 1893 — the Sapporo 
Independent Church ceded the Iwami- 
zawa work to the Mission. Mr. Shiomi 
came and opened the " KOgisho " — this 
was the first work of the Mission. It 
was in this year that the Ichikishiri 
Christians organized an independent 
church. It was then called, — " The Sora- 
chi Church of Christ." In May of this 
year, the Nemuro work was begun by 
Mr. Sugiura. 

In the spring of 1894, a church was 
formed at Ichikishiri, and joined to the 
Kumi-ai body. About the same time 
work was begun at Immanuel by Mr. 
Maruyaraa, and at Utashinai by Mr. 
Abe, but the latter work was continued 
only a little more than a year. 

In the summer of this year Mr. Shio- 
mi of Iwamizawa resigned and Mr. 
Uchida took take his place. 

In May, 1895, Mr. Curtis and I 
came to Sapporo to get land for a 
Mission house and to locate the station 
here. At that time I discovered a few 
Kumi-ai Christians and consulted with 
them about beginning a little preaching- 
place. 

In July, I came with my family, and 
met with six Christians in a little room 
to b^n our work. Mr. C\irtis and his 
family came the next month. 

Before this time some Christians of the 
Sapporo Independent Church had orga- 
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working in Asahigawa, but they could 
not continue it, so they ceded that 
work to the Mission at the beginning 
of the year. Mr. Ozaki was the worker 
then. . 

In May, 1896 a Kumi-ai workers meet- 
ing was hekl in Sapporo. All were pre- 
sent and organized a workers society. 

In September The Sapporo Church 
was organized and I was ordained over 
them. All was going very nicely every- 
where. But at this time Mrs. Curtis 
became very ill. They could not stay 
any longer. So Mr. and Mrs. Curtis 
started for America in October leaving 
no one to take their place. We felt very 
lonesome for sometime. But Mr. Row- 
land and his family came in Deceml)er 
to stay with us. So began a new era 
of our work in Hokkaido. 

ToMO Tana K A. 



Our Oldest Church. 

More than a quarter of a century ago, 
a company of men in Kobe and vicinity 
organized themselves for the purpose of 
casting in their fortimes with the new 
Hokkaido, developing its virgin soil, 
and finding there a home and field of 
activity. 

The leaders in the movement had the 
enthusiasm of a newly found faith in 
Christ. Tliey named themselves The 
Red Heart Company (Seki Shin Sha,) 
and like the early settlers of Massa- 
chusetts began by founding on the new 
soil the school and the Church. 

The Moto-Urakawa Kumi-ai Church 
last year celebrated its twentieth anni- 
versary. It has never had financial aid 
from any missionary society. Its first 
minister was a clerk in the company's 
employ. Later he was released from 
his office duties and made full, ordained 
pastor of the church. 

The church has had its ups and downs. 
Growing out of its close relations with 
this colonizhig company it has been 
through experiences quite akin to those 
that tried and harrassed the early 



churches in America until their separa- 
tion from the state. It has once swarm- 
ed and its offshoot, the Urakawa 
Church, six miles distant, is now another 
nominally self-supporting church. 

Through all its history it has deeply 
influenced the people of that region. 
Its geographical separation from other 
churches robs it of close fellowship. But 
its oldest as well as its newer members 
ai-e constant in its support. There is 
reason for deep gratitude that it was 
planted there so early and for earnest 
prayer that it may increase in usefulness 
as it does in years. 

George M. Rowland. 



Sapporo. 

Sapporo (Pop. 72,000) is the capital 
of Hokkaido. It began its existence by 
government order in 1870. 

Wide streets running due north and 
south and east and west together with 
several good parks make a most attrac- 
tive city. 

Now that the rail road works are to 
come here from Otaru and Iwamizawa 
and a large iron foundry is to be started 
as well as the great Sapporo brewery, we 
shall soon be a city of ten million souls. 

Much Christian work is being done in 
the city by three French priests, four 
American Mormons, four Franciscan 
Monks, eleven American missionaries, 
three English missionaries, five Protes- 
tant pastors, three Bible women, one 
Christian Girls' School, and last but not 
least Sapporo Agricultural College now a 
part of the third Imperial University. 
The head as well as many of the professors 
of this institution are earnest Christian 
men and the college has had a great 
influence in both the city and the island. 
Gen. Kuroda's great desire for this school 
has been fulfilled, namely, that its gradu- 
ates ]yejii)^utsit (men of character). 

Statistics are dry facts but they mean 
much in regard to Sapporo. Resident 
members of the various churches in the 
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Biological Hall, Sapporo. 



hundred and eighty, Roman Catholic 
ninty-one, Baptist fiffeet^n, Episcopal one 
hundred and six, Methodist one hundred 
and forty, Presbyterian one hundred and 
seventy- eight, Independent one hundred 
and forty, Kumi-ai one hundred and 
twenty making a total of nine hundred 
and seventy. The number of Sunday 
School pupils in connection with the six 
Protestant churches is six hundred and 
forty-nine. The number of pupils in the 
Presbyterian Girls* School is one hundred 
and forty. 

Christian work is welcomed in the 
large hospitals in the city and also in 
the mihtary hospital connected with the 
25th and 26th regiments, located in 
Sapporo, of the 7th Division. 

The spirit of union is strong amongst 
the six Protestant churches and union 
meetings are frequent. 

The women of these six churches unite 
in a flourishing Jizeti Kivai (Charity 
Association) and have a union prayer- 
meeting once in two months. 

The Kumi-ai church, organized in 1896 
with thirty members, has had three meet- 
ing places, the first in the pastor's house ; 



the next in the little church bought fronci 
the Methodists m 1897 for the sura of 
one hundreil and foity dollars ; and since 
May 1899 in the present building which 
was enlarged last year. 

This church has liad from the begin- 
ning Rev. Tomo Tanaka for its faithful 
pastor and th<i same missionaries which 
facts, according to Mr. Ebina's speech at 
its tenth anniversary, account for its 
steady growth. 

It is unique in having four foreign 
members on the church roll. 

It carries on with a fair degree of 
growth a Y. M. C. A. ; an Jo Kwai 
(King's Daughters) and a fujln-hirti 
(Woman's Meeting.) H. G. R. 



The Station since 1897. 

Though much work has been done 
in Hokkaido by the mission force in 
Sendai the Sapporo Station was not 
opened till 1895. It seemed a strange 
providence that Mr. and Mrs. Curtis 
w^ho liad come north with so much 
lioi)efalness and with suchy fiaith in 

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Hokkaido and love for its people should 
be coinpolled by ill-health to lay down 
the work within one short year. But 
such was the case and they were already 
in Yokohama waiting for their home- 
bound steamer when the Rowland family 
reached Japan returning from furlough 
late in 1896. 

The Rowlands were sent to Sapporo 
for one winter on trial. In the early 
Spring of 1897 their location Avas defini- 
tely decided. Miss Daughaday's coming 
soon followed. Mr. and Mrs. Bell 
joined the Station in 1903 but were 
prevented by ill-health from a long 
service. The Bartlett family came on 
their return from furlough in the autumn 
of 1905. After two wintei-s in Sapporo 
the exegencies of the work called them, 



while continuing as a part of Sapporo 
Station, to take up their residence in 
Otaru twenty miles away. 

During this period since 1897 work in 
Nemuro* and Ichikishirif has been 
abandoned ; Iwamizawa Church and 
Kuriyama Chapel have been turnal 
over to the Japan Missionary Society ; 
Sapporo and Asahigawa Churches have 
become self-supporting ; Urakawa Church 
also at one time declined all financial 
aid but it is now again unable to 
support a minister. Meantime new 
work was early begun in Immanuel, 
Otaru, and Kuriyama, and lately in 
Obihiro. At present the Station has 
formal relations with only three centers 
where there are resident ministers. 

George M. Rowland. 










Mission House in Sapporo 
(in which the Rowland family is 



now living.) 



A Junket in Teshio. 



Teshio is one of the eleven provinces 
of Hokkaido that has never had a resi- 
dent Kmni-ai minister among its sixty- 
six thousand souls. Two years ago a 
little band of colonists went into the 
very interior of the province. The nu- 
cleus of the band hailed from Naganuma 
find were connected with the Iwami- 
zawa church. The number was increased 



by a few families direct from Japan 
Proper. Many of these were also Christ- 
ian. The leading spirit in the whole 
colony is a young man of moderate 
education, staunch principles, and strong 
faith who has spent two winters in the 
home of the writer. 

* The exceedingly cold and humid cli- 
mate made it unsafe for Mrs. Suginra to 
remain another winter. 

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It was my privilege in October to 
visit these brethren, see their farms just 
beginning to be cleared up, their new 
cottages with shingled sides and roofs, 
see in short all their new life in the forest 
primeval. The trip cost me three days 
ride in flat boat and dugout, two days 
in the saddle, and parts of two more by 
train. But it richly paid. 

Our young friend maintains in his 
own house a Sunday School and a Sab- 



hath Service. There were four adult 
baptisms and one confession of faith by 
a miss who had been baptized in child- 
hood. 

The young man is spending the winter 
again in Sapporo, this time with more 
dii-ect reference than previously to Bible 
study and fuller equipment for doing 
Christian work among his neighbors in 
Poropira while he tills the soil to pay 
expenses. George M. Rowland. 




A CliBisTiAN Family in Pompiba 
(in whose cottage the meetings are held.)i 



Christian Prison Chaplains. 

In the spring of 1891 I went to Hok- 
kaido as a moral instructor of the 
Sorachi prison. The .«ui)erintend<?nt of 
the prison was Mr. Oinoue, a man of 
Christian principle. And though he 
did not avow Christianity as the prin- 
ciple of moral instruction in the prison 
yet he put reliance upon Christian men 
for this instruction. 

At that time there were about two 
thousand convicts in Sorachi. They 
were moreover reputed to be the worst 
characters among all the Hokkaido 
prisons. Many of them were sers^ing 
life sentences. 

In those days public opinion did not 
pay much attention to criminal reform. 
Many people thought criminals incap- 



able of reform. But I believed that just 
as human sickness can be healed so 
criminals can be reformed by God's 
words. At meetings of the whole prison 
I gave them moral talks. But at 
special meetings by their request I gave 
them pure religious education. At lass 
my Bible clai^ses were attended by at 
many as five hundred prisoners. Many 
of those became Christians and even 
evangelists after their release. 

1 was at this prison three yejira dur- 
ing which time I could make as many 
Christians as I expected. Being taught 
that all men are brothers before God 
and that even criminals can become sons 
of God through the atonement of Christ 
these men believed in that atonement, 
repented of their sms, and came back to 
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During these three years in large 
ra(«tings, in the cells and in private, 
I talked with them about morals and 
faith. And I experienced that the in- 
fluential power of Christianity can really 
reform them. 

At that time in the four other large 
prisons of Hokkaido there were Messrs. 
Hara, Otsuka, Yamamoto, Mizusaki, 
Nakae, Makino and Sueyoshi working 
zealously for the reform of the prisoners. 
So there appeared many believers in 
Christianity among thorn. The Central 
Government also praised the prison 
management of Mr. Oinoue. Thus the 
moral instructors of our (Christian) per- 
suasion introduced a now era of prison 
work in Japan. Kasi ke Tomeoka. 



are pushing bravely in the direction of 
self-support and of the evangelization of 
their neighbors. G. M. Rowland. 



A Piigrim Colony. 

Amongst the inmigrants there are 
many colonies in Hokkaido. Each 
colony is formed and held together by 
some common tie of relationship or of 
purpose. None of these colonies are 
higher in ideal than that of Immanuel. 

The pioneers a decade and a half 
ago were Christian men and CTiristian 
families. They came to this unoccupied 
region with the high purpose ol* establish- 
ing a Christian community where there 
should be liberty of conscience and right- 
eousness in all social relations. 

In accordance with this common and 
controlling purpose, after selecting their 
territory, they marked its Eastern bound- 
ary by a post inscribed, " liove never 
faileth ; " and its Western by another 
bearing the inspired words, " Tlie truth 
shall make you free." The fonist lands 
between these two markers, their future 
home, they named Immanuel, Grod with 
us. 

For the first few years these people 
were shepherded by one of their own 
number, a theological graduate who 
wrought for the most part at his own 
charges. Since 1897, the little congre- 
gation has had a regular minister, Mr. 
Utagawa, without change. Ho and they 




Grandpa Ma ru yam a 

(of Immanuel Chapel) 

His son is an office bearer in Immanuel 

Chapel and his grandson is a missionary to 

China. He is now ninety-four years old. 

Touring in the Hokkaido. 

Not I counting Otaru where we now 
have a resident missionary, Sapporo 
station has two regular outstations to 
visit. Besides these, the widely scatter- 
ed churches, with and without aid from 
the Den do Gwaisha, are some of them 
supplied with over- worked pastors and 
some are without any pastor, so that 
visits from us are eagerly looked for. 
Beyond these are the isolated Christians 
and inquirers who can keep in touch 
with Christian influences only through 
the itinerant. 

The distances are magnificent, as is 
easily understood when one stops to 
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Hokkaido Bicycle and Ainu Hut 
(Dr. Rowland riding the " bicycle " on a touring trip.) 



fourth of the area of tho Empire proj^er. 

Though the rapid extension of the 
railways is bringing places nearer to- 
gether, there is plenty left for less con- 
venient means of locomotion, such as 
sorry post-nags, Hokkaido bicycles like 
the picture, scarcely more comfortable 
four-wheelers, little coast steamers, occa- 
sionally dug-out canoes, and even a 
good milage on nature's own. 

With engagements piled u]) in the 
home cities, it is harrl to get away for 
tours which must inevitably occupy so 
much time in merely gettiuii: alx)ut, but 
I liave yet to meet the j^erson able to 
tour who did not think it wonderfully 
worth while when he was at it. 

That is peculiarly true of the Hok- 
kaido. Hero the aesthetic and social 
influences which make for refinement 
with even the poorest to some extent in 
the older communities, are largely want- 
ing from the surroundings of those scat- 
tered settlers. Church servict>s, the ex- 
ample of older Christians, and even 
Christian neighlwrs like themselves, 



with whom they could compare notes on 
the way, are a memory only — or a mat- 
ter of hearsay. 

The sordid surroundings and fierce 
struggle for bare existence in which they 
find themselves on first arriving here — 
whatever the prospect of future com- 
fort — while they bring out the fine 
traits of some — are as likely to prove a 
source of discouragement to others. It 
not infrequently happen.s that in adjust- 
ing themselves to the novel surroundings 
they fall into new errors, wliich prove 
not only misfortunes to themselves but 
stumbling-blocks and causes of dissention 
among fnl low- Iwlie vers where union is 
most needed against the common tempta- 
tions. 

The touring missionary can do much 
to help in such cases, and make for him- 
self warm friendships at the same time. 
For instance, on the writer's last tour, a 
brother from a main-island church, 
whose carping at his new companions 
had resulted first in alienation from 
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My Boatmen 

(Ainu husband and wife) 

Ais'D Our Dugout. 

God, made confession wth tears and 
strong weeping to man and God. The 
tidings of this work of grace brought 
confession and repentance to another 
and another. 

Tlie touring missionary is looked to 
to give tone to many occasions. One 
brother had saved his silver wedding 
from February till July. It so hap- 
pened that the festivities had to he 
shortened in order that I might fulfil the 
request of another thHt I preach the 
funeral sermon over the ashes of his 
aged mother which he had brought from 
Tokyo and kept un buried waiting for 
this opportunity. 

We also have our temporal uses — not 
so far removed as might be thought 
from the spiritual. Once we were re- 
quested to furnish escort, for one hundred 
and fifty miles, to a pair of Plymouth 
lock fowls, whoso seerl, it was hoped 
^ould become as the sands of the sea for 



Some of the sights we witness are 
pitiful indeed. One afternoon, while 
climbing a steep pass where the horses 
could barely keep their footing, wo came 
upon a little party consisting of a tired 
looking man carr}dng, in a little basket, 
a tiny brazier, a tea-kettle and one or 
two other bare necessities ; followed at 
a little distance by a tireder woman 
leading a little four-year old girl, and 
carrying on her back, one tied above the 
other, two weary babies — the youngest 
scarcely a month old. 

They had been set down that morning 
by train from far-away Sendai and had 
already climbed six or seven miles of 
the lutart-breaking divide. But between 
them and their destination, of whoso 
climate, loneliness, and hardships they 
knew scarcely any thing was still forty- 
iive miles of weary tramping. We 
could do nothing for them but tell them 
the way and the distance to the nearest 
rest-house, and offer a prayer that the 
little ones might grow up to better 
things than their parents could know — 
even had they gone back to the famine 
of Sendai. 

On another occasion we were able to 
prove of more service. A large part}' 
of ignorant and, of course, almost penni- 
less famine- refugees ; arrived at the end 
of their railway journey, to find twenty 
miles of deep snow between them and the 
promised land, and having traversed that, 
found that the promise itself was false 
and that no provision for them had been 
made. Their disappointment and real 
peril can be imagined. I suppose that 
they will never know that it was a pair 
of touring missionaries who put their 
case hafore an official in a neighboring 
town, next day, through whom they were 
provided for after all, at least sooner 
than there was any prospect of. 

Such things as these are only the side 
incidents of touring but they are fre- 
quent enough to Iw a very real variety 
in, and sometimes an illustration of, the 
preaching. 

Samuel C. Bartleit. 



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The Mission House in Otaru 
(in which the Bartlett family is now living.) 



Otaru. 

Forty years ago, there are said to 
have becD only four hundred and forty- 
four houses in this wrner of Ishikari 
Bay, halfway up the West coast of 
Yezo. 

About twenty years later the town 
had gro\Mi so rapidly and proved such a 
good harbor, that it was made one of the 
few open ports of the empire. 

To-day it is the largest and busiest 
city on the island, having out-strippoil 
Hakodate even before the fire. 

The natural scenery is beautiful in 
fair weather, either in summer or winter. 
The summers are apt to be hot and dry, 
but the winters are not so cold as in the 
interior. In 1906, snow lay on the 
ground from November 7 until April 10, 
but the thermometer never went below 
18^ F. 

The city is rapidly changing and taxes 
are higher than in any other place in 
Japan. Even the hills are l^ing cut 



down Iwdily. In one square you see 
black-toothed women laughingly race 
with their little wagons of earth, and 
across another you pick your way with 
trepidation where dozens of dump carts, 
drawn by sturdy ponies at full galop, 
work wonders every week. 

There may ]ye worse roads some where 
in the world but Otaru must be the 
worst place for a horse to live. That 
there are only thirty-eight baslta ('buses) 
and one hundred and mneteen jinriki^ha 
for nearly one million people, suggests 
that walking is the favorite method of 
locomotion (and woe be unto those who 
are not provided with rubber boots). 

As for Protestant foreign missionaries, 
l)esidGS our own family, the Presby- 
terians have one lady ; the C. M. S. two 
ladies ; and the Baptists one family. 

There are five Protestant churches in 
the city, but the buildings are nil very 
small. The Methodists have the largest, 
and generously lend it for special oo- 
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was forty years ago could be comfortably 
aceoramodated in the churches of to-day, 
but the new conditions demand new 
equipment for the great opportunity for 
usefulness in this promising field. 

In 1906 the A.B.C.F.M. began to 
realize the situation. Instead of trust- 
ing to occasional visits and various 
methods of work at arms length, one of 
the two families in Sapporo was sent 
here to live in this outstation. Land 
was purchased for a Mission house and 
the house was built — built big too — in 
accordance with the task in hand. The 
" prophetic chambers " and roomy par- 
lors, not only furnish shelter for passers 
by and meetings of all kinds, but give a 
wonderful view of the busy sea port. 
By day and night one feels the spell of 
its rushing life. 

May all who share in the responsibility 
of this work hear the cheering reassur- 
ance, — "Be not afraid for I have 

much people in this city. 

Fanny Gordon Bartlett. 



Our Newest Field. 

Owing to lack of funds Sapporo Sta- 
tion has not for years opened any new 
preaching places. Some old places have 
been discontinued and others have deve- 
loped into self-supporting churches. But 
appropriations for evangelistic work have 
been so reduced from time to time that 
new work could not be undert^iken. 

About a year ago however there came 
an irresistible call to send an evangelist 
to the town of Obihiro as our first 
Kumi-ai minister to the large province 
of Tokachi. By dint of special effort an 
appropriation was finally secured ; and 
by a special kind providence a most fit 
minister was found in the person of 
Rev. M. Uchida, who had had some ten 
years of experience in Hokkaido work. 

Mr. and Mrs. Uchida began their 
work in Obihiro about the middle of 
July last. The little company of Kumi- 
ai brethren in the town, and scattered 
through the province, welcomed them 
with great joy. All these five months 



have been marked by steady pro- 
gress. In the town of Obihiro itself 
the work has been gaining real momen- 
tum. In the surrounding country Christ- 
ians, zealous and lukewarm, are con- 
stantly being brought into connection 
with the movement. Arrangements are 
made for re^lar visits to at least three 
points out of town at each of which there 
are brethren to welcome the minister 
and to prepare tlie way before hand so 
that his visits can be turned to best 
account. As Obihiro is our newest field 
so it is one of our most hopeful. 

George M. Rowland. 



A Great Calamity. 

Hakodate, the nearest city to the main 
island, was at once the oldest and, till 
recently, the largest city of Hokkaido. 
Before treaty revision it had l>een one 
of the seven treaty ports of the empire. 
The natural door of entrance to Hokkai- 
do, possessed of a good harbor and pro- 
tected by a Gibraltar-like "Head" it 
was the seat of all the consulates and a 
busy mart of trade. 

About ten o'clock at night, August 
25th, in a veritable gale of wind a fire 
broke out in one of the most populous 
sections and by the next morning much 
more than half of the whole city, and 
that the wealthiest part including nearly 
all the large business interests, lay in 
ashes. The light wooden buildings were 
consumed like tinder. It would be 
difficult to conceive of a cleaner, more 
complete destruction. Only here and 
there a store-house or a chimney of some 
foreign built structure withstood the 
flames. Of the light wooden buildings 
scarcely a post or a sill remained. In 
a single night fifty thousand people were 
left without shelter, and many of them 
without a garment except what they 
snatched in escaping. 

Loss of property was exceedingly 
heavy. Substantial insurance companies 
were embarrassed. It was feared that 
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blow. But a visit to the scene exactly 
two months from the date of the disaster 
showed temporary structures over almost 
the whole burnt district. A strenuous 
effort was being made to keep tlie business 
interests from flagging. In a few in- 
stances wares was being sold in tents. 

Both Greek and Roman Catholic 
Churches lost their places of worship and 
their schools. Of the five Protestant 
meeting houses all but the smaller of 
two Episcopal Cliurches were burned. At 
the present writing all the congregations, 
with the one exception, are without ade- 
quate places for worship. 

The Kumi-ai people have a temporary 
building which they have erected on 
rented land. Their members have been 
much depleted by removals since the 
fire. And yet it is proposed to build 
and equip another little chapel at a 
total expense of about six hundred 
dollars of which five hundred dollars are 
already in sight. It is earnestly hoped 
that a few American friends will come 
to the relief with the gift of a ten hund- 
red dollar building lot, thus saving 
land rent, encouraging the brethren, and 
presenting before all a beautiful example 
of brotherly love. G. M. Rowland. 



Other ChristianlWork. 

If only a few paragraphs are devoted 
to work other than that of the Kumi-ai 
connection, it is not because other work 
is small or unimportant. We have in 
the island Catholics both Greek and 
Roman, Troppists, and Franciscans. Of 
Protestants, Episcopolians, Methodists, 
Presbyterians, and Baptists are all re- 
presented by European missionaries and 
all have churches and Japanese pastors. 
There is an independent church in 
Sapporo of noble history and doing 
steady work. The Salvation Army has 
its representatives. There are also 
Mormons here from Utah. And first 
and last there has been much Christian 
influence exerted outside of all formal 
church connection as by the Agricultural 



Collie (now university) and in the 
prisons. 

It will be remembered that Arch- 
bishop Nicolai began his work for Japan 
in Hakodate some forty-five years ago. 
Here he remained and studied and 
exerted his quiet influence some sev^i 
years before he went to Tokyo in 1869. 
May he not have influenced more than 
we know the sainted Neesima of Doshi- 
sha fame ? It was here that the Greek 
church welcomed its first convert in the 
person of Sawabe Tokuma, still with us 
in the flesh and head priest (cho shi sai) 
of his church. This church reports three 
pastors, twelve evangelists, an<l twenty- 
five hundred and forty-five baptized who 
are all communicants. 

Tlie Roman Catholics are working 
steadily in their own characteristically 
quiet way, seven European priests and 
four evangelists besides the Troppist 
and Franciscan communities. They have 
by estimate ten thousand baptized of 
whom six hundred are communicants. 

Tlie Independent Church of Sapporo, 
with a resident membership of one 
hundred and forty, has just (Nov. 20) 
welcomed its new pastor in the person 
of Rev. Y. Takezaki, a graduate of 
Pacific Seminary, Berkeley, Cal. 

The Episcopolian (Seiko Kuxti) work, 
l)egun in 1874, has had since 1896 its own 
Bishop Fyson for the whole Hokkaido, 
a large force of European (12) and 
Japanese workers and reports twenty- 
five hundred and four baptized with 
seven hundred and seven communicants. 

The Methodists have a large and 
flourishing Girls' School, a missionarj' 
family, four missionary ladies, five 
churches, two chapels, seven preachers 
and four hundred and eighty-seven fuU 
members. 

The Presbyterians report two Girls' 
Schools, two missionary families, three 
missionary ladies, five churches, seven 
chapels, ten preachers, nine hundred and 
thirty-nine Imptized, and five hundred 
and ninety-five communicants. 

The Baptists have one missionary 
family, two preachers^nd one hundred 

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and nine comraunicaDts. 

With these other Christian bodies 
include the Kumi-ai believers and we 
have to every one thousand of the 
population somewhat more than two 
Protestant communicants, somewhat more 
than four 1)aptized Protestants; and 
counting tlie Koraan Catholic estimate 
as exact a total of somewhat more than 
seven baptized to every one thousand 
of the population. G. M. Rowland. 



The Jimmu Tenno Festival 
in Miyazaki. 

The great festival which has occupied 
tlie central place in the thought of all 
Miyazaki in particular and all liyuga 
io general for a twelve month or more is 
now a matter of history, culminating the 
tenth of November. The celebration 
was held primarily to mark the com- 
pletion of the new slirine which had been 
planned as a fitting memorial of the 
fiist Emperor, not only for Hyuga but 
for all Japan. 

The result of the skill of the architect 
and the builder is an unusually happy 
one. Following the ancient style of 
building, for the most jmrt only care- 
fully selected cryptomcria wood was used 
in the construction and this was left in 
the natural finish, unpainted and un- 
vami^ed, with trimmings of hammered 
brass. Everything is in perfect taste 
and the effect is of chaste and dignified 
simplicity. 

But the shrine itself had httle to do in 
connection with the festival except as 
furnishing the occasion for it. The pre- 
sence of the Crown Prince for three days 
out of the three weeks that the festival 
was in progress, was the central feature 
of the occasion. But for the patronage 
of His Royal Highness the elaborate 
preparations of months — the renovation 
of the town architecturally, the newly 
inaugurated electric light system, the 
admirably conceived and successfully 
executed educational exhibit and the 
industrial exhibit also — would have been 
seen and enjoyed by but a comparatively 



small number. As it was, however, the 
place was filled to overflowing^ and the 
usually quiet town of fifteen thousand 
people became for three days a metro- 
polis of eighty thousand or more, among 
them some twenty thousand school 
children who came with their teachei-s 
from all parts of the province. 

Many impressions of this somewhat 
remote inland festival might be recorded 
that would Ixj of interest, such as the 
reverential and quiet manner in which 
the people received their Prince, the 
orderliness of the crowds, the universal 
hospitality and the absorption of interest 
of the raw countryman. But it would 
be of little value to dwell upon them. 

From the point of view of the Christ- 
ian missionary the festival was of more 
than usual interest. First, in that for 
months previously it efiectually interfer- 
ed with all forms of aggressive Christian 
work, and secondly, for the large number 
of people that it brought into immediate 
contact with ourselves in our home during 
the high days of the celebration. The 
missionary's foreign house is always a 
matter of interest to strangers from the 
interior. Knowing this to be so we 
planned things so as to make of the 
circumstance an evangelistic opportunity. 
We deliberately invited the public, 
whoever was so disposed, to come and 
see the house during the festival. The 
invitation was circulated by means of 
two or three bill-boards in prominent 
places and by giving out leaflet tracts, on 
which the invitation was mimeographed, 
at an Okayama Orphanage concert tho 
night of the Prince's arrival. 

Then the people came. Sometimes 
singly but more often in groups of five 
or ten, or, in the case of school children 
escorted by their teachers, in companies 
of from twenty-five to seventy-five. We 
kept a record of the visitors so far as we 
could, and at the end of five days there 
were nearly five hundred people register- 
ed and there were many more whose 
names, we did not get. The plan was 
simple. First, to show them the ground- 
floor living rooms with rtlieir vftrious 

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attractive features, among which the 
piano was always of first interest, then 
after taking them through from room to 
room finally to end up in the Japanese 
reading room where a variety of papers, 
books, tracts, Bibles and portions, and 
a large array of pictures illustrative 
of the life of Christ and of the develop- 
ment of Christianity, had been carefully 
prepared beforehand. Here a crisp in- 
formal talk of ten or fifteen minutes was 
given to each group of people, in ex- 
planation of the salient points of Christ- 
ianity, illustrated by the pictures on the 
walls. The talk concluded with an 
invitation to buy some book or Bible 
portion, and a number availed themselves 
of the opportunity. Then, on leaving each 
person was handed a simple tract and was 
asked to call again at his convenience. 

It was a simple form of evangelism 
but it gave us all strefauous work while 
it last^, and who knows but it was as 
effective as any form of evangelistic 
effort that wo could have used. 
A Bible seller sold several hundred 
Bibles and portions on the street duiing 
the festival, but aside from that there 
was no special evangelistic effort made. 
It was a Shinto festival and people did 
not come to be evangelized. Yet many 
a seed was dropped by the wayside 
which perchance may take root and 
grow. C. BuRNELL Olds. 



The Japanese Nation in Evolution. 

A book on Japan from the pen of Dr. 
Oriffis is sure to command attention 
because of the reputation which the 
author has already made for himself in 
this sphere of writing. His book " The 
Mikado's Empire" has passed thru 
eleven editions and is a well acknowledged 
authority on Japan. 

His latest book, " The Japanese Na- 
tion in Evolution," treats especially of 
the development of the nation from one 
of its sources. All possible emphasis is 
placed upon the influence of the Ainu, a 
race formerly spread over a large part of 
Japan but now living only in the north 
and rapidly dying out, which race, Dr. 



Griffis claims, belongs to the white or 
Aryan stock. 

The question of the sources of the 
Japanese nation has been a very puzzl- 
ing one on which there have been widely 
differing opinions. The only thing cer- 
tain is that the Japanese are a composite 
race, one element at least Iwing Malay. 

It is certainly a new thought to lay 
emphasis on the influence of the Ainu 
blood, which strain has entered into the 
Japanese composite, and to claim, as is 
done in the Avide advertising of this book, 
that the secret of the success of the 
Japanese nation lies in this strain of 
"white" blood. 

It is a very pretty conceit, one which 
the vast majority of the " white or Aryan 
races dearly love, that the white race is 
infinitely superior to all other races on 
earth, the one destined to rule the earth. 
It will therefore, doubtless, be very 
comforting, to many, who have viewed 
with more or less secret alarm the rise of 
an Oriental nation, to be told that that 
nation has a strain of " white " blood in 
it, even tho that strain be very small. 
Some think it doubtful that even that 
small strain is " white." To the minds of 
some, moreover, who are deeply interested 
in the Orient and its nations and fore- 
see the rise of China to be a world- 
power, quite possibly within the next 
generation, the query will oome,-^Where 
will the white or Aryan strain be found 
in the Chinese ? 

But aside from this question Dr. 
Griffis has produced a very interestmg 
book, one which is well worth reading by 
those who are interested in Japan and 
one which will give them a very good 
idea of Japanese history. M. D. D. 

For some time many of tlie people 
attending the preaching services held in 
tho Imadegawa Kindergarten building" 
have been desirous of forming a regular 
church organization. This month this 
desire was realized and a Karik^hcai 
or tf3mporary church, i.e. a church that 
is not yet entirely self-supporting, was 
organized with fifteen charter members. 
Other members will be received by 
baptism early in January. 



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moral character. 

There is a large demand for Kindergarteners of 
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CONTENTS: 

General Notes. 

A Family CoNVEBsiOK...ir. J. BENNETT. 

Japanese Phokographic Systems. 

E. GAUNTLETT. 
Y. W. C. A. 
Dr. Atkinson — In ^fEMORiAM. 

J.D.DAVIS. 
Last Days. 

Hospitality ELLEN E. CARY. 

A Touring Missionary. 

J. II. PETTEE. 

A Helpful Friend S. A. SEARLE. 

Service to Kindergarten and Train- 
ing ScHoor ANNIE L. HOWE. 

Supplementary A. AV. 8. 

In ApprI'X?iative Memory of Mrs. At- 
kinson B.W. PETTEE. 



General Notes. 



Died Feb. 17, 1908, at Kobe, Rov. 
Jolui LaidJaw Atkinson, D.D. 
jji * * Jf! 

Dr. and Mrs. Greene plan to leave 
for furlo by the Mongolia, on the 18th 

inst. 

♦ * « ♦ 

Mr. and Mrs. Dunning left to-day on 
tlie Prince Ludwig, for Europe and the 
L^nitcd States. 

nn :ll/i ^a * 

Mrs. C. A. Clark, wlio was expected 
in Japan last month, is tarrying at 
Honolulu, for needed rest. 

* 4e 4e :|e 

Kobe College is just publishing a new 
Englisl) catalog, which will be gladly 
sent to any c^yan application. 



Owing to special contributions for the 
purpos*-, we are able to present several 
pictures which othoiwise would not have 

appeared. 

* * ♦ * 

The new catalog of the AVomau's 
Evangelistic School is ready and will bo 
sent to members of tie Mission ; also, to 
others, on application. 

* * * * 

Dr. John C. Berry, Mis. Berry, 
Katherine and Helen " are just as (/enki 
(vigorous) as when we, in company with 
tlie meml)ors of the station, used to take 
those great walks around the hills of 
Kyoto." 

'I* 'f* H* '!• 

The Mission's publication work is 
largely done thru the agency of an 
independent firm of Christian publishers 
at Tokvo. Tl-.e report for 1907 shows 
that this firm sold 1.879,849 pages of 
our publications. 

The modern, up-to-date missionary 
dislikes religious cant. Recently we 
were requested by a member of another 
mission from a distant station, to meet a 
new arrival. *• She writes a very pious 
letter, but she may be good, too." 

4e 4e 3k * 

The announcement is made of the 
engnirement of Miss Vesta Atkinson 
and Mr. John Dai-e Abell, of the Inter- 
national Banking Corporation. It was 
a great comfort to her father to know 
this before his decease. 



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Leila Albrecht is General Soorotary 
of the Y. W. C. A. in the State Normal 
School at Kiiksville, Missouri. During 
the coming summer she is to be at home 
in Minneapolis, acting as assistant in the 
city Y. AV. C. A. there. 

Dr. Gordon Berry completed, in 
January, a very strenuous term of medi- 
cal service at the AVorwiSter City Hos- 
pital. As many as 75 or 80 patients 
were often under his care. Feb. 1 lie 
Ixjgan a term of surgical service. 

* * * iji 

A special kinder^'arten numlxsr was 
planned for this month, but the uuex- 
]iecte<l death of Dr. Atkinson made it 
desirable to postpone the issue until next 
month. Extra copies of ani/ number of 
Mission Nkwp, should always be ordered 
befoi-e the 10th of the month. 

* 'K * ^K 

If mombers of the Mission who have 
old copies of Mission News to spare 
will inform the editor, a file for preser- 
vation in the Mission Library will be 
made. The February number of Vol. 10, 
No. 5, 1907, and all previous to Vol. 10 
are needed. If copies of Vols. 10 and 
11 are desired, they can be furnished, 
with exception of the F<;bruary number 
in each case; after a short timo these 
extra copies will be disposed of A file 
of Mission News will prove one of the 
best aids, if a careful history of the 
Mission is ever written. 

* * * * 

Bcarinfr out Miss Wainwright's state- 
ment, in the last number, that foreitin 
cookciry is in vogue, we may refer to the 
long-established class at Matsnyama, 
under Mrs. "Warren's charge, to those 
at KoIk), connected with Kobe Church 
and the Woman's Evangelisti(! School, 
conducted by Mrs. Stanford, to two direct- 
ed by Mrs. Learned and one by Miss 
Denton, at Kyoto, to one at Otsu, carried 
on by Mrs. Carj', and to two, by Mrs. 
Davis, at Hachiman and Hikone. Bible 
lessons or Christian talks are customarily 
given in connection with these classes. 



Mr. Koraeji Komuro, for the past 
year pastor of Ikuta Church, Kobe, 
accept<3d a call to Akashi, and besran 
work March 10. The desire for Kng- 
lish led him, at the age of 18, to go to 
Hawaii, where he studied six years at 
the Lyman Boarding School, Hilo, then 
one year at the Northern Pacific Mis- 
sionary Institute, Honolulu. Three 
more years were spent at Moody Insti- 
tute, Chicago; in 1005 he returned to 
Hawaii and served under the Hawaiian 
Board as evangelist at Kona, which 
gives its name to the celebrated brand 
of (•oflt*e. 

:fe 9(e :tc 4e 

Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Jencks reside at 
No. 027 North Wahsatc^h Avenue, Colo- 
rado Springs. He is clerk of the l.st 
Conjr'l. Church, tho she gets credit for it 
in the latest Cong' I. Year Book. She is 
interested and active in W.C.T.U. work. 
Mabel is a college graduate and live^ at 
home. Philip lias Ixn-n married nearly 
two years and has a sou. Horace is 
also at Lome. Mr. Jent^ks was our mis- 
sion treasurer and bu.^in<'ss agent for ten 
years, while Mrs. J(;neks, among other 
activities, is rememlwred for her assist- 
ance in music, at Kobe College, during 
a part of its early years. 
* * * * 

According to the statistics of tlie Hyogo 
As.^pniation, r(H^ently printed, tliere are 
seven financially indejx^ndent and seven 
dependent churches or chapels, only one 
of which is aided by Kobe Station. The 
total membership in all th(^se is 1,884, of 
whom 873 are male.s and 1,011, females ; 
but ()55 are absentees. During the six 
months there were 214 childr<in bap- 
tized and 151 adults, while 86 were 
received by letter, 87 were dismissed, 
died and 3 were excommunicated. Tho 
averag(5 attendance at morning worship 
was 510, and upon evening services, 260. 
At special preaching s(!rvices, it was 
1,573, uj)on prayer meetings, 161, at 
Sunday-school, 748, The contributions 
for all })urposes, totaled jfcn 4,726, or yen 
585 less than the previous six months. 



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A Family Conversion. 

The family, consisting of an old 

grandfather, a raan and his wife and 
two children, has been employed by 
members of our Mission for a uumlK^r of 
years. The grandfather used to be a 
priest, but gave up his connection with 
the temple, on account of old age. Tlie 
husband, when hardly more than a boy, 
was almost hopelessly addicted to drink. 
He was finally employtid by a mission- 
ary family, on condition that he would 
not leave the Mission premises without 
permission, and would report immedinto- 
ly on returning home. He agreed to 
the conditions and stuck to his agree- 
ment, and as far as I know, has not 
drunk any liquor since. For a long 
time afterward, he heard the Bible read 
at morninfc prayers and heard other 
talks on Christianity, but according to 
. his testimony, they did not make the 
slightest impression on him. As far an 
I know, he has always been perfectly 
honest, and has not lie(l to us or deceivf^l 
UP, although he said himself, at his ex- 
amination for entranixi to the church, 
that he had deceived the missionary 
time and time again. On inquiry, I 
found out that this dcxx^ption amounted 
to pretending to be inten^sted in the 
talks at morning prayers, when he was 
not interest(3d a bit. On this point, 
however, I tliink he did not deceive the 
raissiouar}' so much as he thought he 
did. 

Later, he told us that he believed in 
God, and in Christ, and in the Bible, 
and when he was feeling especially 
happy, he would pray, but he did not 
want to join the church, partly because 
he did not know whether he would hold 
out, and partly because there is a great 
deal of talk in Japan about servants 
becoming Christians, because they are in 
the house of a missionary and he could 
not stand that. 

Last year his wife joined the church. 
His father, who was more than eighty 
years old, was growing weaker every 
day, and his death was only a matter of 



time. The old raan could not seem to 
get any peace out of his own religion, 
and finally he asked to l)e allowe^l to 
join the Tottori church, lie was too 
feeble to go to the church for the ex- 
amination, so ho was examined and 
later l>aptized in our servant's quarters. 
A few weeks later I was called up from 
be<l by our servant's wife and asked to 
hurry out to see the old man, as he 
seemed to be dying. I got up and 
dressed as quickly as possible, but as 
soon as I entered the house, I saw that 
the old man had gone. Later, the ser- 
vants told us the story of his death. 
That night ho seemed to be suffering 
terrible pain and finally he called his 
daughter-in-law and asked her to pray 
for him. Shu went into a back-room 
and prayed and, instantly the pain 
stopped and, shortly after, the old man 
passed away, most peacefully. The son 
was tremendously impressed with the 
peacefulnoss of the old man's death. 
And the talk by Mr. Marumo, at the 
funeral servic(% imprcs.s(Hl him very 
much, also. His wife told us afterward, 
that if this exix^rience did not bring him 
around, she had no hope for him at all. 
But it did. He did not tell us at the 
time, but the night of his father's death, 
he made up his mind to come out openly 
as a Christian, and some weeks later he 
joined the church. 

The funeral was in the evening, and 
after the funeral, the son took the body 
to the crematory. The next day, we 
noticed something going on in the back- 
yard, and on going out found that he 
was burning his idols. The metal ones 
had already gone into the fire, but he 
brought in on(i or two of the wooden 
ones to show us before they were burnt. 
We asked him to give them to us, and 
he said ho did not mind, if we would 
put them somewhere where he would not 
see them. We have them now, stowed 
away in a trunk, (the shield Jiikn jin, or 
the seven gods of good luck, a wooden 
image of Buddha, and one of the god of 
fire) with some of the smoke of the fire 

still on them. C^ r\r\n\o 

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The son, though he has little educa- 
tion, is a man of unusual intelligence. 
People may talk aliout idolatry and 
superstition l^eing dead in Japan, but as 
far as I can judge, it is very much alive, 
among the common people, if a man of 
his intelligence still held onto it. It is 
going to bo a long, hard fight before 
idolatry goes, and we shall have to be 
indefatigable in our attempts to spread 
Christian ideals among the people. 

H. J. Bennett. 



Japanese Phonographic 
Systems, 

Prof. Edward Gauntlett, F.R.G.S., 
etc., of Yamaguchi, is well known to 
many of our readers, for his versatility. 
He is the son of the late distinguished 
English musical composer, whose name 
is so frequently found in some of our 
best hymn-books. His letter on Short- 
hand was not written for publication, 
but it will 1)0 of interest to so many 
others that we take the liberty of shar- 
ing it with them. 

" There are several sj'^teras in Japan, 
but they are almost all adaptations of 
the same original, namely, that of Mina- 
raoto. Minamoto invented a system, 
getting the general forms of his letters 
from Sir Isaac Pitman's system, but 
with considerable changes to suit the 
langua2:e. On the whole, his system 
was a very creditable one, though crude 
compared with many of the systems 
used in the States and England. 
Imitators of his system were AV^aka- 
bayaslii. Hayashi Shigeatsu, Miwa, and 
a few others. My system was also 
based on Pitman's, ])ut is as different 
from the other Japanese systems as 
black is from white. Schemes for ab- 
breviating that I used — used in other 
countries, but never used before in 
Japan — wove (1) diffluent lengths of 
tlie strokes, (2) difl[(;r<mces of position 
in the words for special purposes, and 
(3) tlie use of circles, hooks, and loops, 
both at tlio bogimiing and the end of 



strokes for different purposes. Among 
the Japanese systems that may be 
mentioned as being entirely original, in- 
asmuch as they are no imitation of the 
original Japanese system of Minanooto, 
may be mentioned that of Baron Naibu 
Kanda, Hayashi, and Takeda. Tlie 
last-named is rather a clever system, but 
has never been pubhshed in book furm. 
It came out some years ago in the 
" Nippon " newspaper in Tokyo, in 
parts. 

" No writer of my system has ever 
succeeded in entering the Houses of 
Parliament as a reporter ; but in spite 
of this fact I am convinced that my 
system, though more difficult to learn 
than any of the others, is both more 
rational and briefer. One reason why 
no writer has succeeded in passing the 
examination referred to is, that I have 
never been able to push ray system as 
all the others have done. I have not 
taught more than one hundred alto- 
gether. Another reason is that none of 
my pupils had, until last November, 
tried to take the examination. At that 
time three tried, and all failed ; but 
when I explain the matter, I think you 
will agree with me that my system 
stood a very good test Of the three, 
only one had received instruction per- 
sonally from me ; the other two (whom 
I hear were uneducated generally) ought 
not to have tried till th(!y had gone 
through at least the Middle School. 
The one whom I had taught, had 
studied the system only fourteen months, 
and they say that his writing was the 
most rapid, and that he only failed 
through ignorance of a few parlia- 
mentary phrases that he ought to have 
known, and did not transcribe correctly. 
Of the numl)er who took the examina- 
tion, seventy-one, only ten were to be 
chosen. My pupil came out No. 14. 
Of all the others, not one was taking 
the examination for the first time, thev 
had all, without exception, tried aJd 
failed before, one seven times, several 
five, four, and three times. One who 
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failfKl again. Tlie examination was 
held for three days in succession, and 
rao8t of the candidates were turned away 
after the first day, and only twenty 
remained on the third morning. So, 
when I think that ray first applicant 
was so nearly successful after having 
studied shorthand only fourteen months, 
against seventy others, who had all 
tried from two to seven times, I feel 
that I have no call to be discouraged. 
The other two who failed, were praised 
as regards their speed, and so they are 
all going to try again next year. 

" Minamoto's system was issued about 
^the 22nd year of Meiji (1889), and the 
others soon afterwards. Minamoto has a 
small pension, yen 300 a year, from the 
Government. 

" There are shorthand reporters all 
over the countiy, but they are few and 
far between. There are users of my 
system on some of the principal papers. 
My first edition has been out of print a 
year or more ; but the second edition is 
much better and more complete than the 
first, and is, I think, quite suited for 
self-tuition." 

Edw. Gauntlett. 



Y. W. C. A. 



Miss Macdonald, the General Secre- 
tary, says that the National Committee 
of the Y. AV. C. A. of Japan consists of 
Christian women teachers in leading 
schools fo4' higher education, wives of 
professional men, and certain missiona- 
ries who are especially versed in student 
problems. There are 19 associations 
comprising 700 women ; 13 associations 
are in schools and 6 in cities where the 
membership consists of groups from dif- 
ferent schools. Among the activities of 
the Y. W. C. A. are women students' 
summer conferences, the publication of a 
monthly called " The Young Women of 
Japan," and the establishmont of hostels 
for school girls. In 1907 one hundred 
and sixty girls fi-om 28 schools attended 
the conference. The Tokyo Association, 



for two years, has had a girls' hostel at 
Koishikawa and applications exceed the 
accommodations. Girls from 9 schools 
are united in a happy home. " Financial- 
ly and from every other point of view, 
this first experiment has been an acknow- 
ledged success." Mrs. Yokoyama, a 
graduate of our Woman's Evangelistic 
School, and for many years a Bible 
woman working with Mrs. Learned, is 
now housemother at the Kyoto Y. AV. 
C. A. Association. 



In Memoriam. 



" They never quite leave us — the friends 

who have passed 
** Through the shadows of death to the 

sunlight above ; 
" A thousand sweet memories are hold- 
ing them fast 
"To the places they blest with their 
presence and love." 
When one is asked to write concern- 
ing a dear, departed friend with whom 
he has been in close and loving fellow- 
ship for nearly forty-two years, the 
flood tides of memories and emotipns can- 
not be expressed in words. 

Seminary Life. — In the autumn of 
1866, Dr. Atkinson and the writer en- 
tered the junior class in Chicago Theolog- 
ical Seminary. AVe were classmates 
together for three years. We listened 




John Laidlaw Atkinson. 

(Class Plctnre^869). 

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to tlio samo lectures, helped to criticise 
each-otlifir*s sermons, communed together 
m the flaily prayer meeting, and much 
of the time, ate at the same table. Our 
brother was then in the full vigor of an 
opening manhood, bright, chcf>rful, joy- 
ous, hopeful, as was his nature. I never 
heard him speak of his early life. I 
only knew that he came from his native 
England some years before this, to the 
new state of Iowa. In the providencfi 
of God, he soon came under the influence 
of that man of spiritual power and 
moral earnestness. Rev. Josse CUu*rnsoy, 
D.D., a pioneer j^aslor, and later Home; 
Missionary Supei intendent of the state 
of Iowa. It was largely the influence 
of this man which led our brother to 
enter Chicago TheoIogi(»al Sf-minary and 
prepare to preach the Gos|)ol. 

He was a gc^nial companion, a faith- 
ful, earnest student, and zealous in Sun- 
day-school and other direct work in the 
city, duiing each study-year, while he 
spent each four-mouths-lcng spring and 
summer vacation in mission work in Iowa. 

WoKK IX Iowa.— July 29, 18G9, he 
married, at Dubuque, the daughter of 
Dr. Guernsey, and they entered upon 
work in one of the newer, thriving towns 
of eastern Iowa. They lalx)red faith- 
fully and successfully for four years, 
with a growing and united church, in 
that prospin'ous town. 

The writer went to Cheyenne, Wyo- 
ming Ter., about the same tini(', where, 
after two years of successful labor, he 
began to hear an inner call which he 
could not silence, to go to regions b(^vond 
the Pacific, " the real West." ' He 
wrote an apix)al which he sent to twenty 
of his college and seminary classmates 
and friends, who were in the first years 
of pastoi-al work, urging th(?m to join 
him, to form, if possible, a Mission Band 
of five, to go together. " They all with 
one consent began to make excuse." 

First Years at Kobe. — I came to 
Japan in the autumn of 1871, and an 
occasional letter passed between our 
brother Atkinson and myself. In the 
fall of 1873, we had the pleasure of wel- 



coming Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson and 
their two children, to Japan, the only 
man of the twenty to whom I sent ray 
appeal, who ever went into the foix-ign 
work. 

They came just as Christian work 
could bo openly commenced in Japan. 
The edicts against Christianitj' wenj an- 
nulled in Febmary of that year. Tlie 
return of the Iwakura embassy nnd the 
adoption of the Gregorian ailendar oc- 
curred the same ye^r. The first two 
Gospels, in Japanese, and the first tract. 
"Chika Michi," were published that 
year and public preaching was com- 
menced in Kobe. Many thousands of 
Roman Catholic Christians, who were 
released from piison, marched tlirough 
Kobe, during the spring of that year, 
on their way back to their homes near 
Nagasaki. In the midst of such opt- 
ing hopes and lahors, Mr. and Mrs. 
Atkinson began their life and lalwi-s in 
a httle Japanese house " on the liill," 
in Kobe. The study of the language 
was the main work for two years, but 
tract distribution, teaching English 
classes, and welcoming Japanei5e in tlie 
home, filled up the time. 

About a year after their arrival, their 
hearts and home were saddenwl by tlie 
sickness and death of their oldest child, 
a beautiful little girl, and to add to the 
poignancy of this sorrow, at the very 
time when the agonized piixnts were 
watching at the l^edside of the dying 
child, in the little upper chamlxM', thieves 
broke into the house below, an<l carried 
off the little girl's wardrob ' and much 
besides. 

In the fall of 1875, Dr. (Jreene hav- 
ing alrea<ly n^inoved to Yokohama to 
engage in Bible translation, and the 
writer entering Kyoto with Mr. Xeesiraa, 
to begin the Doshisha school, Mr. At- 
kinson was left in Kobe in charge of the 
year-and-a- half-old church, and also to 
superintend the erection of the fii^t 
building of the Kobe Girls* School, the 
contract for which had just Ijeen let. 
From this time forward, as acting pastor 
of the Kolxj church, /and having charge 

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of the opening and expanding work, in 
Hyogo, in Sanda, in Akashi, in Himeji, 
and in Nishinomiya, our brother's hands 
and heart were full. But his evange- 
listic zeal could not be kept within the 
bounds of the Hyogo Ken, AVe soon 
find him pushing out into pioneer work, 
to Okayama, and to Imabari, Matsu- 
yania, I'wajima, Koohi and other places 
in Shikoku. Touring in those early 
days was not luxurious. Rough jinriki- 
sha roads, small uncomfortal3le boats, 
poor hotels, and, worse than all else, in 
many places, fierce and noisy opposition 
from the Buddhist priests and their 
sympathizers, were the lot of the pioneer 
missionary. More than once on these 
tours, in Shikoku, our brother was 
warned by his Japanese friends that his 
life was in danger, as they surrounded 
hira and guarded him back to his hotel. 
Our bi-othor sowed seed, during these 
early years, from which have come 
many churches. 

ClIAKACTERISTICS OF Dr. AtKINSON. 

Those which impress me as I look 
Imck over tht)se more tlian forty years 
of familiar intercourse, are : — 

1. Geniality, sociability. He made 
friends of all classes and conditions of 
men. 

2. Generous hospitality. A warm 
welcome awaital his friends when visit- 
ing, or passing thru Kobe. 

3. Broad sympathy. His sympathy 
reached not only to tlie Japanese^ but 
extended to all classes of foreigners also. 
Companies of sailors from the ships in 
the harbor, were often welcomed to his 
home for a social evening. 

4. Strong, unwavering faith. While 
Ijis views wore not narrow, his faith re- 
mained firm and steady in the midst of 
all the changes of a restless age. 

o. Evangehstic zeal. Always ready 
to give a tract or sjxiak a word, in sea- 
son, touring for years until the condition 
of his health forbade it, always ready to 
preach the Gospel he loved and believed, 
he publishofl to the day of his death, the 
little, evangelistic paper, " Morning 
Light." 



He rests from his labors here, and it 
seems to me that if we could have heard 
his real farewell word, it might have 
been ; 

" Say not good-night, 

'' But in some brighter clime, 

" Bid me good- morning." 

J. D. Davis. 



Last Days. 

Those who were most closely associa- 
ted with Dr. Atkinson during the last 
few years of his life, have been cogni- 
zant of the great life struggle thru 
which ho had been passing, a struggle 
which left its mark on face and word, 
on deed and thought, a struggle in the 
midst of anxiety, sorrow, loneliness, a 
struggle to overcome self, to shake off 
the weariness of body and spirit and 
rise in new strength, a struggle in which 
it seems to those who knew him best, 
he came off more than conqueror. 




John Laidlaw Atkinson. 
(Photograph taken 1901). 

Tiie trip to England and America 
had been looked forward to with some- 
thing of plo.asu.c,^.i.«tn ^jggjismc. a 



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year ago, of the deatli of the sister who, 
in spite of tlie separation since youth, 
had been his close, life-long friend. Still 
there was one sister, many years his 
senior, and a bro-in-law, whose presence 
in the homeland made it an object for 
him to go. However, the trip alone was 
looked forward to with more of dread 
than pleasure ; there was an instinctive 
shrinking from it that showed itself in 
the words often rc})eated in the half 
conscious dreams of the last days, " I'm 
afraid, I'm afraid to go. Let's give it 
up." 

The dear Father, who sees . the spar- 
rows as they fall, was so leading that 
instead of the dreaded " sailing out into 
the darkness alone," there should bo the 
gentle passing away into the light from 
his own home, surrounded and cared for 
by those he loved. 

The same strong spirit which thru all 
those years of service, had kept him at 
his task, in spite of sickness or weari- 
ness, was his to the last, and while 
physician and nurses despaired of his 
life, ho alone was full of ho|>e and 
courage. Time and again the physician 
said, *' the end has come," and the family 
wore summoned to his side, but each- 
time he would come back and say, with 
a smile that sometimes seemed like a 
reflection from the other side, " Tm not 
going to die." At last tho, when his 
indomitable spirit had infused hope 
into his watchers, he himself lost hope 
and the long struggle was over. 

HE OIVETH ins LOVEJ) ONES SLEEP. 

He sees when their footsteps falter. 

When their hearts grow weak and 
faint ; 
He marks when tlieir strength is failing, 

And listens to each complaint. 
He bids them rest for a season. 

For the pathway has grown too steep ; 
And folded in fair, green pistures 

He giveth His loved ones sleep. 

He giveth it, oh, so gently, 
As a mother will hush to rest 



The babe that she softly pillows 

So tenderly on her breast 
Forgotten are now the trials 

And sorrows that made them weep, 
For with many a soothing promise 

He giveth His loved ones sleep. 

All dread of tho distant future. 

All fears that oppress today. 
Like mists that oppose the sunlight, 

Have noiselessly passed away. 
No call nor clamor can rouse them 

From slumbers so pure and deep. 
For only His voice can reach them 

AVho giveth His loved ones sleep. 



HospUalily. 

On our arrival in Kobe thirtj- years 
ago this month, Dr. Atkinson was one 
of the first to welcome us, and an hour 
or so later, another equally cordial greet- 
ing was given us at the door of their 
home, by Mrs. Atkinson. She made 
such a pretty picture as she stood in the 
door way, her baby in her arms and 
little children about her, that I have 
never forgotten it. 

It was with Dr. and Mrs. Atkinson 
that we spent our first five weeks in 
Kobe, by them that we were introduced 
to Japanese Sunday-schools and 
churches, and from them that we 
received many practical hints of life and 
work here. 

During our stay in their homo and 
throughout one year in Kobe, we were 
impressed with the helpful interest taken 
by l>oth Dr. and Mrs. Atkinson in men 
coming from other lands, who there 
spent many a pi-ofitable and entertaining 
Sunday afternoon or evening, which, 
without such a haven, might have been 
far otherwise. 

Those of us who were dependent on 
the unseasonable hours of arrivals and 
departures of Inland Sea steamers, re- 
member the cordial hospitality of the 
Atkinson home which was fi*equently 
taxed by us travel-soiled, country people, 
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My rcininiscences go back to the 
earlier days but it would be jiist as easy 
to tell of later good times in that home, 
the memories of which will always be 
with us. 

Ellen Emekson Oaky. 



As a Touring Missionary. 

Dr. Atkinson was preeminently a 
home- body. Ho loved the old house at 
No. 53 Yamamoto-Dori, Kol^e, in which 
he lived so long. It was his castle and 
his workshop as well as his resting-place 
iK't ween journeys. Moreover, he suffered 




Atkinson Rusidknce, Kobk. 
(Built by Dr. Greene, but occupied thirty-three years by the Atkinsons). 



greatly thru ;i large part of his life from 
indigestion. ** The pepsin man " was 
his sobriquet for years in the mission 
circle. This physit^al affliction was dis- 
tinctly aggravated by Japanese food 
and sea trips in the unoomfoi-table, " tea 
kettle " steamers, by means of which 
trips had to ho made, in those earlier 
ypars, to points along the Inland 8ea. 

It is therefore greatly to Dr. Atkin- 
8on*8 credit that ho did not flinch from 
the hardships of travel in those early 
days. For many years he was the 



touring missionary of our little band. 
AVhen I reacht Japan in 1878, ho was 
in the full swing of that trying: work. 
His pepsin case and special foods were 
on the go almost continuously, to points 
or near or far. 

I remember one such visit in paiticu- 
lar. He arrived at Okayama complete- 
ly exhausted by a sick headache. Dr. 
Berry, whose guest he was, put him to 
bed and advised him to cancel his even- 
ing engagement. This ho declined to 
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staining entirely from eating, brace^l up 
by tea, simple medicines and his own 
plucky sense of duty, he went to the 
theatre meeting, at which he made a long 
and impressive address, and started early 
the next morning to meet his next en- 
gagement which was at Takamatsu on 
Shikoku. 

He was usually accompanied by Mr. 
Suzuki or Mr. Murakami or some other 
Japanese worker, especially when visiting 
a new place, but he sometimes went alone 
and served as his own herald and tract- 
distributer, as well as the preacher of the 
occasion. He early acquired a good use 
of the vernacular and was at his ease 
with all kinds of people and in all 
grades of society. 

Sanda, Nis!ii-no-raiya, Aknshi and 
Ilimeji, in Hyogo Koi, Okayama and 
Kasaoka, in Cikayama Prefecture, Fuku- 
yaraa and Onomichi, in Hiroshima Ken, 
Marugame, Takamatsu, Imabari, Matsu- 
yama, Uwajima, and Kochi, on the is- 
land of Shikoku, vAt\\ Fukuoka, on Kyu- 
shu, make a partial list of the places that 
knew him well and heai-d his preaching 
with interest. 

"While he was not unacciuainted with 
the eastern and noithern sections of 
Japan, he felt little call to go east of 
Hyogo Koi boundaries. His field lay 
to the west and south. He felt a pecu- 
liar proprietorship over that lower half 
of Japan and an abiding interest in its 
welfare, long after the main responsibility 
for its evangelization had ])assed into 
other hands, especially by the 0[Xining 
of Okayama, Matsuyama and the Kyu- 
shu stations, which he did so much to 
bring about. So long as these sections 
remained in his care, he insisted on being 
consulted when visits were made to them 
by others. 

His first tour except to towns very 
near home, was in the spring of 187G, to 
a city 160 miles distant, Kobe Cliristians 
selecting two of their number to accom- 
pany him and paifinr/ their e.vpeni<e-'i. On 
reaching the port of the place of destina- 
tion, they learned, after waiting nearly 
two days "in a wretched hotel," that 



one of the young men who had invite^l 
them, was imprisoned in the house of his 
elder brother for daring to ask a 
preacher of the hated Christian sect to 
visit the plact^, and the other had benm 
so intimidated by threats of his life, that 
he would do nothing more in the matter. 

Dr. Atkinson and his associates, how- 
ever, decided to ** move on to the city 
that afternoon." There they rented a 
largo house, for ten days, and preacht 
every afternoon to large audiences of 
both men and women, " the nights and 
mornings being given to conversing 
with callers and to distributing tracta" 
The fame of their work having spread, 
they were invited to a town thirty miles 
farther on. The missionary an(l one of 
the Japanese responded to this call and 
the exciting experiences of the first place 
were there repeated. 

Not a little danger attended these 
early tours. Steamers occasionally blew 
up or struck on hidden rocks. Dr. 
Atkinson was told of three attempts 
upon his life and there w^ere probably 
other unreported ones. '* Shadowing by 
deteotivos or ]X)lioemen was of common 
of'cur^one(^" partly to protect the for- 
eigner and ])artly to find out what he 
really was about. A just (estimate of 
this form of exhaustincr si»iviee, together 
with his own sense of privilege that he 
was permitted to sliare so largely in this 
kind of lalx>r, is shown by his own testi- 
mony thereon : ** This early touring work, 
together with the crowded theatre-preach- 
ing services that l>ecame so ix)pular in 
later years, were evidently providential 
methods of giving a knowledge of the 
GosjmbI to large multitudes of all classes 
and to both s<!xes, and we praise Grod 
for them." 

J. 11. Pettee. 



Dr. 



Atkinson —A Helpful 
Friend, 



Relations with Kobk College. — 
AVhen the first class was graduated from 
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Eev. O. H. Gulick presented the diplo- 
Tuas. To the next three classes Dr. 
Atkinson gave tlio significant i-olls of 
paper. After that, the programs of 
graduating exercises do not mention the 
giver, but a faint memory comes back, of 
a day when some one suggested that it 
would be more appropriate for one of 
the teachers to give the diplomas; in 
those days there was no principal. Dr. 
Atkinson acquiesced in what has since 
that time been the custom of the school, 
and never afterward gave any sign of 
sensitiveness at having been thus set aside. 

In those earlier years he occasionally 
made an address from the platform of 
the school, on public occasions. Later, 
as acceptable Japanese speakers grew 
more numerous, his part often consisted 
in merely pronouncing the benediction, 
but his interest in the school and his 
helpful services were by no means 
limited to that function. 

"Whether it was to counsel in regard 
to repairs and oversee workmen, to 
teach a class in some emergency, or to 
serve on the College Committee, he was 
always ready to help. 

The position of the one man in a 
station otherwise composed of women, 
which he held for so many of the later 
years of his life, must have had its 
difficulties at the best. AVhen consult- 
ed in regard to the school he never 
failed to respond cordially to any appeal 
for counsel, and to be ready to give 
freely of time and thought to the pro- 
blems of the institution. 

A few years ago, when the school was 
in its not unusual condition of being 
short of teachers. Dr. Atkinson very 
kindly taught a class in Theism for two 
terms. This is but one illustration of 
his readiness to be of service. 

For several years he was a member 
of the Kobe College Committee, of which 
he served a year or two as chairman, 
and of the Board of Managers recently 
organized. One of the last pieces of 
business to which he attended was insur- 
ing the College buildings for the current 
year. 



Kobe College has lost a valued friend, 
one who has taken an active interest in 
its growth from the beginning, and whose 
j)lace cannot easily be filled. 

Some CHARAcrERisrics. — One of my 
earliest memories of Dr. Atkinson is of 
a station pmyer meeting at his home. 
Some missionaries from China who had 
been spending a few weeks in Japan 
had sharply criticized our way of treat- 
ing the Japanese, in giving to them so 
much of responsibility and authority in 
the management of the churches, — proph- 
esying trouble ahead if we did not 
keep things more in our own hands. 1 
am not sure that it was the subject of 
the meeting, but Dr. Atkinson spoke 
very earnestly from John 3 : 30, " He 
must increase, but I must decrease." 
His spirit of self abnegation, of wiUing- 
nf'.ss to be set one side or ignored, if only 
tliii Kingdom of God might be advanced, 
and the almost prophetic expression of 
his conviction that missionaries were to 
be not so much leaders as helpers of the 
Japanese churches, impressed me deeply 
at the time, and influenced greatly my 
attitude toward the Japanese. 

I learned later that Dr. Atkinson was 
by no means the only member of the 
mission to hold such views, but his readi- 
ness to do quietly the thing that would 
l>e most helpful, without seeking honor 
for himself, was none the less one of the 
powei-fiil influences of my first years in 
Japan. 

The (^uiet, modest way in which he 
carried on that which was, perhaps, more 
than anything else, his mm work, — the 
little paper called *' Morning Light," — 
showed both the strength and the sweet- 
ness of his character. Glad of the 
co-operation of his fellow workers by 
contributions to its columns and by sub- 
scriptions, ho never showed any personal 
feeling if, in the stress of other work, 
we failed to respond to his requests, but 
went quietly on, putting his best into 
the paper, and making it the success it 
has become. 

Wo used sometimes to joke Dr. At- 
kinson on his pessimisra^^^fwjfl^ he did 



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often see the difficulties in the way of a 
course of action or the dark side of a 
cloud, more clearly than others, but 
again and again when those around him 
were blue or discouraged, when to the 
rest of us the skies looked dark and 
success seemed doubtful, his bravo, 
cheery words brought new hop<i and 
courage. I have sometimes thought in 
that contiection, of those words of Philipps 
Brooks, " It is very good for strength 
that some one needs you to be strong." 
Dr. Atkinson did not fail his friends 
when they needed him. AVhen every 
one else was ready to faint he was 
always strong and trustful. 

Susan A. Sicauij.. 



Service lo Ihe Glory Kinder- 
garten and Training 
School. 

These institutions are now a part of 
the world's work, and we may stand 
ofl' and look at the result. "We may 
criticize, we may commend, but, what- 
ever our attitude, if we look c^irefuUy 
and justly, there is one thing we 
must do, and that is, recognize the 
fact that many and various have been 
the threads of sympathy and service 
woven into the design. 

Among those whose relation has been 
intimate and wliose interest permanent, 
from the inception, twenty three years 
ago, until now, we see Dr. and Mrs. 
Atkinson, whose sympathy and service 
show large in this fabric woven for the 
little children of Japan. 

When the w(;men of the Kobe Church 
were planning a Christian kindergarten 
in 1885, Dr. and Mrs. x\tkinson did 
not, because it merely concerned little 
children, refuse to lend their aid ; on the 
contrary, they were full of encourage- 
ment for those who were planning the 
work, and were instrumental in secur- 
ing sales in America, for the articles 
gathered by the women, to raise funds. 
I^ater, Mrs. Atkinson, personally ar- 



ranged a successful concert for the 
foreign community in Kobe, whicjh 
brought a good sum for the kinder- 
garten that was to be. AVhen money 
had been raised, the building put up, 
occupied and the rooms found in- 
sufficient, it was Mrs. Atkinson again 
who came to the rescue and secured 
funds for a new room. 

It was Mi-p. Atkinson, still again, we 
had to thank for the flower garden which 
has been, for many yeai^, one of the 
most valuable parts of our work. 

Filed away with other i)aper8 belong- 
ing to the Kindergarten, is an envelope 
such as Dr. Atkinson used to send from 
his office. On the outside, in his own 
characteristic hand, is written : " Miss A. 
L. Howe, Authority from Governor of 
Hyogo Ken to ha head of the Kinder- 
gaiUni Training 8(;hool, June, 1907." 
This was quite like Dr. Atkinson. 

Kobe Station has the unique dis- 
tinction of being a station of women. 
Dr. Atkinson, with the large interests 
l>elonging to the business agent of the 
Mission, was the one man among ua 

He had charge of our funds, and of 
business matters connected with our 
work, but he never assumed, in any 
way, anything approaching dictatorship. 
He stood by to give his help when we 
asked, and gave it impartially to Bible 
School, College, and Kindergarten; 
otherwise, he left us free to work out 
our own plans. Not that he was careless 
of what was going on. He recognized 
and rejoiced in our successes, and saw 
the mistakes we made, that we know, 
and we also know his anxiety and sym- 
pathy for our distresses, but even in 
our mi.stakes ho left us free to learn by 
our own experience. 

He seldom opposed us, he did not add 
to our burdens by withholding, so far as 
he had the power, what was necessary 
in the way of tools for our work. He 
did not forget us. When the Kinde^ 
garten and Training School were left 
without a Principal in 1903, the work 
came under the care of a oofnmittee, of 
which Dr. Atkinson was Chairman. 



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Dr. Atkinson's Study and Office. 

(The oil-painting over tlie desk, was by Mrs. Atkinson, in 1904, 
done speciallj for Dr. Atkinson). 



When the Principal relumed to Jajmn 
in 1906 Dr. Atkinson quietly had 
all the papers connected with the trans- 
fer of authority, made out and then 
presented the documents to the one in 
charge. 

AVe realize that a kindly spirit has 
vanished beyond our ken, that in the 
death of Dr. Atkinson ^Ye have lost 
one whom we could trust for help. 
Dr. and Mrs. Atkinson lie in their 
graves on the pleasant, sunny slope of the 
Kasugano Cemetery ; one of the Mission 
homes has done its work and is closed 
forever. Perhaps too late, we can see 
that from that home lias gone much for 
the making of Japan, not the least l)eing 
the service and the sympathy woven into 
the Glory Kindergarten and Training 
School. Annie L. IIowi:. 



Supplementary. 

As many facts about Dr. Atkinson 
are given elsewhere in this number, we 
set down only a few supplementary ones. 
See also Vol. IX. No. 8, Mission NE^vs 
and the Missionary Herald, July, 1906. 
Dr. Atkinson was born at Danby, 
Yorkshire, Aug. 12, 1842, son of a 
school-teacher, whoso death let! to the 
son's emigration, at the tender age of 12, 
to Iowa, where his uncle, John, gave 
him a home on a ranch. In 1860 he 
visited his mother in P^ngland, but soon 
returned to Iowa, where he worked in a 
flour mill. At 20 he l)ecame a Chris- 
tian and after marriage, was pastor, for 
four years, at Earlville, Iowa, on a 
salary of ?8()0. Had his father-in-law 
not die<l in these early yeai-s (1871), 
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havo come td Japan. Ho camo in a 
side-wheeler, si)ending 36 days on the 
journey and arrived at Kobe, Sept. 28, 
1873. 

In 1893 he published his Piince Sid- 
daHha, the Japanese Biuldha, dedicated 
to the Y. P. S. C. R, with an introduc- 
tion by Dr. F. E. Clark. The purpose 
of the book was to show " the vital clif- 
fere)ice between the Light of Asia and 
the Light of the World." We romera- 
ber the frequent visits of a certain Bud- 
dhist priest to Dr. Atkinson's study and 
the laborious process the latter went 
thru to gain, at first hand, from the 
lips of teachers of the doctrines of the 
Buddha, that story of his life. Recently 
Dr. Atkinson had renewed his interest 
in Buddhism and had begun to work 
over some of his old material, long 
neglected, on "The Ten Buddhistic Vir- 
tues." One paper on "Not Killing," 
printed in 1 905, another on " Not Stea- 
ling," was printed last August, by the 
Asiatic Society of Japan. Another of 
the series was in custody of the Society 
at the time of his death, while it was his 
purpose to complete the series of ton. 
We Ixjlieve a rough translation of four 
or five otiiers, was lefl. 

Dr. Atkinson's studies in The Ten 
Buddhistic Virtues were largely trans- 
lations, with merely minor condensations 
and summaries of certain parts, of a 
book entitled, "Jiizen Hogo" or The 
Word of the Law of the Ten Virtues, 
a series of sermons delivered by Katsu- 
ragi Jiun, apparently of the Kegon 
Sect, in the latter part of 1773 and daring 
1774. Tiio Juzcn or Ten Virtues 
are ; 

Not Killing (Fti-Sc^ho), Not Stealing 
(Fu'Chn'(o)y Not Committing Adultery 
(Fii-Jain), Not Lying (hn^Mdyo), Not 
Exaggeiating (Fu-Iugo), Not Slandering 
(FiirAkko), Not Double-tongued (Fu- 
Eyozetm), Not Coveting (Ftt-Tanyoku), 
Not beingi Angry (Fu'Shin-i), Not Heret- 
ical {Fu'Jakeii), There are ten vices 
(Juahi) which are the oplX)sit(^s of the 
above. "Man's duty consists simply 
in the observance of the ten virtues," 



the preacher tells his auditors. "Any 
one thus faithful can thereby attain to 
the quality and rank of a sage and of a 
Buddha." 

In 1896 Rippon conferred the degree 
of doctor of divinity on him. 

Dr. Atkinson was unaware of disease 
till about fifteen months ago. At his 
summer cottage on Mt. Rokko, near 
Kobe, he had a severe attack of illness, 
last summer, in connection with which 
one of his physicians first gave intima- 
tion of the serious import of his trouble 
— arterial sclerosis. But, all the au- 
tumn, he was feeling so much better 
that he was not a little incredulous about 
the corixictness of the diagnosis. He 
had settled his affairs at the end of 
January, in anticipation of a furlo in 
England and America. He went to 
Yokohama, as stated in our last, and 
intended to sail from Kol)e, for England, 
on the ver}^ steamer which brought liim 
back to Kobe. 

The funeral services were conducted 
by Dr. Pettee and Rev. S. Murakami ; 
at the oeniet(M-y the Masons also partici- 
pated . Tiic Kobe College chorus sang 
at the Church and at the grave. The 
bearers from the house were Japanese ; 
from the church, representatives of the 
Missicm and of the foreign community. 

A. W. S. 



A Word in Appreciative Mem- 
ory of Mrs. Atkinson. 

Tlie dominant note in Mrs. Atkinson's 
life stiems to me best expressed by the 
old Saxon word, neighborhness. 

Twenty- five or moi'e years ago, when 
Kobe Station numbered eight or more 
households, there was not one of them 
where friends, acquaintances or even 
strangers, were more cordially welcomed 
than at the Atkinson house on the hill. 
Busy as this capable house-mother was 
with her own little brood, looking after, 
herself, not only their daily needs of 
food and clothing, but the training and 
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i*en gcit in soliools ; giving freely the time 
and strength Deeded to keep the complex 
household machinery in smooth running 
order; making a quiet restingplace for 
her over-worked husband when at home, 
and keeping tlie castle during his long 
and frequent absences on country tours ; 
slie could always spend time to give 
help and advice to hor friends on all 
sorts of subjects from the making of 
baby clothes and custard pies to the 
painting of landscapes or the running of 
a woman's society. 

For many years she was in reality, if 
not in name, the pastor of Kobe Union 
Church, arranging for the Sunday ser- 




Mrs. Carrie Guernsfa- Atkinson. 
(D. Apl 18, 1900. PIiot<;<;raph taken 1901). 



vices, entertaining the preachers, calling, 
and visiting the sick and afflicted, and 
others as well, and keeping open house 
for all, but especially for the homeless 
young men, alone amidst the temptations 
of a foreign city. 

Handicapped as she was by difficulty 
in hearing, for years she was the guid- 
ing spirit of the Japanese Christian 
women who mot at hor house frequently 
for Bible readings, and for instruction 
in foreign ways of cooking and needle- 
work. A woman of broad sympathy, 
of wide experience and of a kindly heart, 
she filled a large place in the Kobe 
community. 

During the last years of her life, do- 
barred from public life by ill health, her 
own home was as complete and restful, 
her welcome as cordial, her interast in 
her friends* lives as kindly as in her 
palmiest days. And even then her 
hands were never idle, she was a tireless 
worker even to the end, as many a 
damty gift of needlework or painting in 
the homes of her friends will ttistify. To 
tlioso of us who live in the interior, no 
visit to the emporium of Kobe was quite 
complete without a chat over an after- 
noon cup of tea with neigliborly Mrs. 
Atkinson, the friend of many years. 

And so I lay upon that grave, no 
longer lonely, on the sunny hillside of 
tho Kobe that she loved, this word of 
loving thanks in that she was always a 
good neighbor to me and mine. 

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KINDERGARTEN NUMBER. 



CONTENTS. 

General Notes. 

General Kindergarten Situation. 

ANNIE LYON HOWE. 

Home Statistics A. L. H. 

Translations and Publications. A. L. H. 

Miss Wakuyama A. L. H. 

The Soai Kindergarten. 

AGNES DONALD GORDON. 

SoiTE Results A. D. G. 

Maebashi Kindergarten. 

FANNIE ENSWORTH GRISWOLD. 
Growth of Imadegawa Kindergarten. 
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Kindergarten and Sunday-school. 

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The Kindergarten as an Evangelistic 

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ToTTORi Kindergarten. 

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Hanabataee Kindergartrn. 

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Bom March 12, 1908, at Kyoto, to 
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* * * * 

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pupils have entered the new class. 

* * * * 

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first tour into the country Feb. 25 to 
March 3. She went with her father 
to Immanuel and Setana. The journey 
was by train, by sleigh, on horse-lmck and 
on foot. She thinks she likes touring. 

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Wo learn of two small villages in the 
immediate vicinity of Okayama, in which 
all the children excitpt babies, are 
enrolled as members of the Sunday- 
school. One is an eta village, i.e., com- 
posed of people from the former pariah 
class. 

♦ * * * 

Five now members were received into 
the Matsuyama Church on March 29, 
including the wife of Major-General 
Tanida. She is a sister of the lato Prof 
Morita, of the D6s!iisha. At Gunchu, 
near by, Mr. AVarren baptized seven. 

* * * * 

Miss Nagai, graduate of Glory Train- 
ing School, and engaged at a Buddhist 
kindergarten, in Miyako-no-j6, Kyushu, 
has recently been granted a government 
certificate without examination. Her 
friends arranged a special jubilation 
over this honor. 

♦ * * * 

Work is developing well at Tottori 
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Bible class, sometimes numbering twenty, 
for judges, procurators and other officials 
connected with the local court, at the 
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11. His conversion and choice of the 
ministry may be regarrlcd as one of the 
results of Rev. T. F. Buxton's work, at 
Matsuvo. 

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The Missos Mary and Grace Stowe, 
new appointet^s to Kobe College, arrived 
at Kohci, March 29, just in time for 
coramenw^ment at the College, where 
they were heartily welcomed bv their 
future co-laborers. They are located, 
for language study, in Tokyo, where 
they make their home with Miss O. 
Julius, of the Church Missionary Society, 
52a Tsukiji. 

* * * * 

Miss Yoshi Kajiro, head teacher of 
the Sany5 Girk' School, Okayama, 
returned last month from a ten mouths' 
trip around the world, mainly for the 
purpose of visiting educational institu- 
tions in America and Europe. She 
received a warm welcome from both 
the Christians and the general public 
of Okayama. She has brought back to 
the school, substantial gifts of money, 
from American friends. 

* * * * 

Kobe College had a rare treat last 
month, in a series of three stereopticon 
lectures on Art, by Mi-s. E. J. Blattner, 
of St. Lou is. The subjects of Landscapes, 
Music, aud Madonnas were illustrated 
by a large range of pictures from the 
days of Egypt down to modern times. 
The profits from the lectures were 
evenly divided between the lecturer and 
the College; the latter netted nearly 
fifty yen, to be used towards its new 
gymnasium. 



The numerous friends of Miss Alice 
E. Harwood, of Los Angeles, will re*?ret 
that she was compelled to undergo a 
severe operation recently. Her sister 
writing a week later, said, " the improve- 
ment she has made is perfectly remark- 
able." Miss Harwood was a member 
of our Mission from 1891 till 1899. 
stationed at Niigata, Kumaraoto and 
Matsuyama. Since her return to Cali- 
fornia she has been very dt^voted to work 
for Japanese, especially in connection with 
the mission for them at Los Angeles. 
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Rev. T. Miyagawa, pastor of Osaka 
Church, and Rev. T Watase, pastor of 
Kobe Church, have recently been in 
Korea for evangelistic work. Thirty- 
nine, including eleven by letter, were 
taken into the Kumi-ai Church, at 
Seoul, March 29, nearly doubling the 
membership of the church. Seven were 
baptized at the Kumi-ai Church, Pyeng- 
ynng. This is work among Japanese 
residents. The unusually successful work 
among Koreans continues, making that 
land one of the most interesting of all 
mission fields. 

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In Japan the commencement season 
is in cherry-blossom time, and the end 
of March with the first of April, is filled 
with graduating exercises, and entrance 
examinations. On March 26, thirty- 
seven graduated from the DOsliisha 
Academy and eight from the College; 
fourteen from the Academy of the Girls* 
School, six from its Domestic Science 
course and four fi-om its higher course. 
March 27, twenty-nine children received 
diplomas from Glory Kinderjmrten. 
March 28, eight graduated from Matsu- 
yama Girls' School. March 30, forty- 
one graduated from the Academy of 
Kobe College and six from the college 
course. At Matsuyama, about 100 boys 
and girls received certificates of promo- 
tion in the Night School. April 11, six 
graduated from Glory Training School. 



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The sixteenth annual convention ("fine 
ihkI inspiring, in spite of traciitional 
Kanazawa rain") of the Japan C. E. 
Vnion was held at Kanazawa, April 2 
to 4, with 111 delegates from other 
places. Tokyo got the prize banner for 
largest incr<;ase in number of socicities. 
There was a net gain of 9 societies in 
Japan, making the total 165. Pres. 
T. Harada, of the Doshisha, was elected 
president of the Union t(^ succeed Rev. 
N. Taraura, of Tokyo. A new feature 
of the Union is an evangelistic depart- 
ment to encourage local societies to aid 
the churches in pushing evangelistic 
work, by paying expenses for some well- 
known preachers or by sending its own 
general secretary to fields chosen for 
special work. An evanorelistic com- 
paign was planned to follow the con- 
vention, at eight <«nter8 of the Hoku- 
riku work. Over 60 yen, taken at the 
convention, is to bo used for religious 
books for tho 15 pastors and evangelists 
of the Hokuriku (Kanazawa district). 
Bishop J. S. Mills> (United Brethren) 
and Rev. J. B. Thornton, the new 
pastor of Kobe Union Church, were the 
special speakers. A cherry-blossom, 
cmbi-oidered banner, labeled, " From 
Japan to Cleveland," is to be seiU- in 
recognition of 81 ,000 pledged by C. E. 
societies of that city for Japan Endeavor 
work this year. The next convention 
will be at Osaka. 

Miss Denton who founded the Imade- 
gawa Kindergarten, furnishes the follow- 
ing about its origin. Tho need of a 
place for the large Sunday-school which 
had been kept up at the Dosliisha Girls* 
School for many years, and for a center 
of work for girls who attended various 
schools for sewing, embroidery, and the 
like, but made their home \v*th Miss 
Denton, led to the idea. In l<s;i7, upon 
talking with tho parents of some of the 
Sunday-school children as to the needs 
of the neighborhood, there was found a 
desire for a kindergarten among vtuy 
bumble folk — so great a one that the 



Station was asked to make the venture. 
Dr. Learned encouraged the plan with- 
out reserve ; indeed getting a house, get- 
ting a kindergartner, getting government 
sanction, all took so much time and 
patience that the scheme would have 
Ixicn given up, had it not been for Dr. 
Learned. Dr. Saiki was most kind, 
and it was owing to his efforts that 
government sanction was obtained. The 
first present received by the Kindc^r- 
garten was a framed picture of the 
Emperor and Empress, from Mr. Iraai, 
and the next, a very small sum of 
money, ten cents or less, from a gardener, 
Mr. Mori. Tho work was barely 
started, when Miss Denton was trans- 
ferred to Tokyo. The burden of carry- 
ing it on then fell upon Mi's. Learned's 
shouldei-s, where it has rested ever since. 



The General Kindergarten 
Situation in Japan. 



It is ab.solutoly hopeful. In all the 
large missions, kindergarten work is 
Ix'iug pushed as one of the necessities of 
the hour. There are at least thirty-two 
Christian kindergartens and when the 
next Kindergarten Union report is pub- 
lished, we shall probably find nearer 
forty. 

There are also five Training Schools, 
witli five accredited kindergartners in 
charge — one in Nagasaki, under the 
Metliodist Board, in charge of Miss 
Cody, a graduate of the Chicat^o Kinder- 
gartiin College; one in Hiroshima, 
also under the Methodist Board, in 
charge of Miss Cooke, a graduate of a 
Training School in Atlanta, Gn. ; the 
Glory Kindergarten Training School, 
under tho American Board, in charge of 
Miss Howe, a graduate of the Froel)el 
Association, in Chicago; another in 
Tokyo, under the Baptist Board, in 
charge of Miss Rolman, a graduate of 
the Stat<i Normal School Kindergarten 
Department, of New York ; and a very 
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<^harge of the Canadian Methodists, under 
Miss DeWolfe, a graduate from a train- 
ing school in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

The demand for kiudergartners is far 
in excess of the supply from these in- 
stitutions. The calls come fi-om all parts 
of Japan, from the I^ochoo Islands, 
Formosa, China and Manchuria; some 
of these kindergartens are for the fami- 
lies of the rich ; miiny of them are for 
the poorer, and some are for the very 
poorest ; some of them are supported by 
foreign funds; others are started by 
graduates on their own responsibility, 
and carried on successfully with no 
outside aid. From everywhere comes 
the one report, " we cannot possibly 
take all tlie children who apply for 
entrance, we have to keep a waiting 
list." For the first time since this 
Christian kindergarten movement was 
startefJ, about twenty years ago, we find 
girls crowding into the training schools. 
Until recently it has been difficult to 
secure as many students as we could 
care for ; now, the tables are turned, and 
applicants are being refused, for lack of 
room. 

The buildings in which this kinder- 
garten and training class work is carried 
on, are worthy of notice. Last year, in 
Nagoya and in I'oda, very comfortable 
and complete buildings were erected. 
This year, the Baptists in Tokyo, are 
building ; in Hiroshima, plans are being 
made ; in Kobe and Kyoto, the kinder- 
gartens have separate, commodious 
buildings ; in fact, the rule, and not the 
exception, is, good, substantial, adequate 
buildings for kindergarten work. 

Tliose missions which have not yet 
become aware of the strength of this 
kindergarten movement nor realized its 
need, have some very ** bad quarter 
hours" ahead of them, until they pro- 
vide the necessary plants to keep pace 
with the opportunity. 

A word should be paid of the kinder- 
garten work in the non-Christian 
schools. They number hundreds, and 
with very inadequate provision for 
training their teachers. Th(?ir buildings, 



many of them, are very fine, costing, in 
one case, in Osaka (where there urv: 
over 20 non-Christian kindergartens^ \ 
80,000 !/en ($43,000), There are ot];ers 
costing nearly as much, and many others 
with very good (juarters. These kinder- 
gartens are improving. I was aston- 
ished, when accepting an invitation to the 
closing exercises of one of these non- 
Christian "child gardens," the other 
day, to witness the transformation which 
has taken place. The floors used to be 
bare, unpainted and unwashed ; now 
tliey are neatly nuitted. The assembly- 
room used to be void of anything 
artistically attractive; the other day I 
saw drawings on the blacklxmrds, the 
children's work most attractively dis- 
played, the certificates tied vnth pretty 
ribbon ; everything was clean and attrac- 
tive. 

The Japanese have several societies 
for their kindergartens, which are most 
enthusiastically supported; also several 
magazines devoted to the cause. Two 
professors have lately given themselves 
to the study of stories for children — 
kindergarten material is manufactured 
in Japan, and while all this is not yet 
beyond the pale of criticism, still it is 
safe to say that the chiklren's hour is 
striking. 

Annie Lyon Howk. 



Some Statistics. 



There have gone from the Glory 
Kindergarten into the public schools of 
Japan, nineteen classes, with a total of 
418 children who have been under the 
influence of song, system, story, color, 
work, play, a life with nature, order, 
cleanliness, daily prayer and daily 
Christian living, for five hours a day, 
five days in the week, forty weeks of the 
year, for three years, many of them, 
some for less time. "NVo have enrolled 
during that time, 570 cluldren, so that 
the proportion of those who have staid 
until they were obliged to enter the 
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l)een very great. Wo have a large 
number of familifes who have sent us, 
one after another, all their children ; at 
our last (oleventh) graduation (March 
28th), we gave a cei-tificato to one child 
who was the sixth in line from the same 
home. 

At the eleventh commencemont of the 
Training School (April 11th), we counted 
on our list of graduates, fifty-six names, 
trained kindergartners, with two years 
of hard study to their credit. Of these 
fifty- six Christian kindergartners, nine- 
teen ai-e in active service, five have 
passed Ixjyond, and all the rest, with 
a very few exceptions, are mistresses 
of Christian homes. These nineteen 
Christian kindergartnei s represent fifteen 
different Christian kindergartens, nine of 
which belong to Cong rogationa lists, one 
to Canadian Methodists, one to Epis- 
copalians, one to Lutherans, two to 
Presbyterians, and one to the Buddhists! 

The nine Congregational kinder- 
fi^art^ns are: Glory, Kobe; Airin, 
Kyoto; Imadegawa, Kyoto; Maebashi, 
Maebashi ; Tottori, Tottori ; Hanabatake, 
Okayaraa; these six arc supported by 
mission or foreign funds; three more, 
Asahigawa, in Hokkaido, Ashikaga 
and Haraichi, both in J5shu, were start- 
ed independently and have been support- 
ed by outside aid. The six directed 
by our graduates, in other missions, 
are, Shizuoka (Canadian Methodist) ; 
Saga (Lutheran) ; Yonago (Episcopal); 
Tokyo (Presbyterian, Mrs. McNair's) ; 
Kanazawa (Presbyterian, Mrs. Fulton's); 
Miyakonojo (Buddhist). 

A. L. IL 



Translations and Publications 

for the Glory Kindergarten 

and Training School. 

AVhen one brain is expected to furnish 
all the mental nourishment for two in- 
stitutions, the situation resembles that 
in Egypt when the Israelites were 
commanded to make their full quota of 
bncks and find their own straw ! It is 



all very well for such a teacher as 
Pres. Hopkins to sit on one end of a 
log, and straightway make it a uni- 
versity, but for any ordinary mortal to 
carry in one brain all that is needed for 
students during a two years' course in 
child culture — well! that is another 
matter ! But that was what it amount- 
ed to when the Glory Training School 
began. Not one book for that whole 
curriculum ! If Solomon were living in 
Japan, he would alter his statement 
about the making of books, and would 
surely say, "of making many l)ooks 
there is no end — of trouble." To 
one with no experience, publishing a 
book even in one*s own language and in 
one's own land, is an undertaking not to 
be lightly entered upon, but in Japan 
— well, all I can say is this, one's 
eyes are most mercifully blinded to the 
difficulties and trials awaiting. Who 
should translate? What should be the 
style? Who should revise? Who 
publish? how should we publish? the 
cost? who should pay the cost? illus- 
trations? copyright? These were some 
of the larger matters to be taken into 
consideration, before the actual work 
came crashing down on one's shoulders. 

In looking over files, we discover 
very kind, courteous help and advice 
coming from Dr. Greene, Dr. John 
Gulick, Dr. Gary and Rev. Mr. Allchin ; 
Prof. Owarla, of Tokyo, Mr. Oga and 
Mr. Sakata, Rev. Mr. Tsuyumu, and 
Prof Kashiwagi. Without these men 
to advise, translate, revise, and shoulder 
the work of publishing, we should have 
gone without our lx)oks to this day. 

Mr. Samuel Johnson, of Boston, also 
gave valiant aid, in supplying SI 50 
to defray the expense of publishing 
Froebel's " Mother Play." In 1892, a 
book of compiled kuidergarten songs 
was publislicd ; in 1894, a book of 
kindergarten lectures ; a book of Christ- 
mas songs, and Jane Andrew's famous 
"Seven Little Sisters"; in 1895, 
Froebel's " Mother Play," and in 1896, 
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is oxliauste(] ; also the '* Christmas 
songs," likewise, th(^ first niv] second 
edition of the J kin(]erL?arten lectures. 
Tlie '* Mother Play " is now in its 
second edition. Besides these books 
already published, w<j Iihvo four more 
translated and in use in the school, but 
only one of them, Froebel's ** Education 
of Man," will soon be in book form. 
Fortunately we have been able to secure 
the services of l*ros. Harada for a 
revision of that famous book, a fact 
which will insure a trustworthy repm- 
duction into Japanese. ^Xo are now 
suffering for lack of those lx)oks out of 
print, and for six others which we have 
not had at all, but for which we can 
baixily wait another dav. 

A. L. II. 



Wakuyama San. 

a j.\panese wo^ian with an 
International Spirit. 



- Nineteen years ago this Japanese, 
then a girl, jmt herself under the train- 
ing of an American woman, and at 
the end of nineteen years, those two, of 
races said never to be able to really 
understand eacli other, are warmer 
friends and truer helpmates than in 
the beginning of their companionship. 
Seventeen years ago AVakuyama San 
was graduated from the training class, 
and entered upon her career as teacher 
in the Kindergarten. 

AVIkui the small dormitory for the 
training class, was built, it was Waku- 
yama.San who took charge of the students 
there, and it is slie who has kept order 
in, and scmudal out of tliat place, with a 
sweet, happy, homo-like spirit ruling, 
until the graduates come back to it as 
to their mother's roof. 

When, in ISlKl, the foreigntu* in 
charge, kft Japan for a furlo, it was 
Wakuyama San who took the Kinder- 
garten and k(i])t it up to standard until 
the furlo was at an end. In 1903 she 
had Income a teacher in the Training 
School, in ad<lition lo her work in the 



Kindergarten, and when tlie principal 
was leaving Japan, not expecting to 
return, it was Wakuyama San again who 
was intrusted with the work, this thm\ 
a largo share of Training School iesj:on- 
sibility coming upon her shoulders, m 
addition to the Kindergarten. Again 
the work went on without harm, aixi 
when the unexpected happened, and, in 
1906, the j)rincipal returned to Japan, 
it was W^akuyama San who was the 
first of the Japanese to gi-eet her. 
Going into the office to resume charge, 
upon the w^alls we found the very 
schedules of classes left there in 1903. 
"Why! Wakuyama San! what in 
the world have you kept those old things 
hanging there for?" "I was wait- 
ing for you," was the i-esponse. It is 
indeed a gift from God, such loving, 
faithful, efficient comradeship. With 
no lack of Japanese loyalty, this 
woman is yet of great eno spirit to work 
as one of mankind, and she truly works 
on, from day to day, without the 
slightest suggestion of narrow provin- 
ciality. It is this spirit of faithfulness 
to duty, of a realizing sense of the claims 
of mankind, that has kept her growing 
constantly, until she has become an 
expert in her chosen work, an influence 
in her profession, a blessing to her co- 
workers and a lesson to Japan. 

A. L. 11. 



The Soai Kindergarten. 

In Sept., 1892, in the Airin'<ha — 
(House of Neighborly Love) — was born 
the Soai Kindergarten. The Amm^ht 
was a house, rented by the Kyoto Station, 
for evangelistic and philanthropic work 
— a sort of model for the theologiail 
students ; also a place where the)^ might 
do direct work themselves. Dr. M. L. 
Gordon was put in charge of this house;. 
Tiuough the kindness of Mrs. Cary and 
some of her friends in America, the 
school was provid(;d with tables and 
Ix'nchop, and other kindergarten supplies. 
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Training School, was our fii'st teacher. 
Ill healtli compelled her to resign after 
two and a half years of untiring and 
loviuc? work. After Miss Yagi, we had 
a number of teachers for longer or shorter 
periods. The last ten years, we have 
beon blessed with the continuous service 
of Miss Miichi, also a graduate of Kobe. 
She has been ably assisted by Miss 
Suzuki, a young woman whom she has 
herself trained. 

The school went on in the same 
building, a little, dark house, with no 
playground, till 1902, when, to nuK-t the 
government requirements for light, air, 
etc., we had cither to close tlie school 
or have a new building. After much 
vexatious delay, suitable land was pur- 
chased and a simple, convenient building 
was erected, in loving memory of the 
founder of the school, Dr. Gordon, by 
his family. The new building is on Shin 
Sakaye Machi, not far from the old one. 
It faces the east, and has largo, sunny 
windows on the south. It also has a 
sunny playground, where the children 
have little gardens, swings an<l large 
sand-lK)xes. The swings and sand-boxes 
were gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Dunning, 
for the sake of their little boy, who died 
on the way to Japan. Our playground 
is so sheltered that there is iiardly a day, 
the year round, when happy children 
are not either swinging, or playing in 
the sand, making all manner of wonder- 
ful things. 

We liave grown from a little group 
of three or four children, paying no 
tuition, to a school of fifty children, 
paying a monthly tuition of 50 sen (25c.). 
AVe have three good t(iachcrs and could 
increase the number of children, if 
we eared to do so. AVe always have a 
waiting list, but we fet^l a small school 
is bettor for the children, than a large 
one. We are well known in our neigh 
borhood. There is a small orphan 
asylum near us, and several times 
children have bo(m brought from there 
to see how well-behaved and obedient 
our children are. No other kindergarten 
is near us, so we feel we are truly needed. 



liooking back over the years of our 
existence, we are grateful for the op- 
portunities we have had to help little 
children to a knowledge of the God 
who made them and cares for them. 
We are grateful for what these children 
now are and for what they arc to Ix;, 
because of the loving, sympathetic 
training they have had in this school. 
The future seems bright with promise. 

A ONES Donald Gordon. 



Some Results of the Soai 
Kindergarten. 

The Airin Church and the Soai 
Kindergarten, hav<5 a common home 
in the Kindergarten Building, on Shin 
Sakaye Machi, Kyoto. The interests 
of the two aie .so bound together that 
it is very difficult to say, what has been 
done by the church and what by the 
school. In this building the church has 
regular preaching services twice on Sun- 
day ; prayer-moetings ; liible classes ; 
sewing societies ; and all the various 
forms of work connocte;! with a growing 
church. 

What are some of the results of the 
Kindergarten? Bands of brightfaced 
boys and girls who greet us with 
pleasant words or a smile, as we meet 
them on the street ; many of those boys 
and girls gathered into our large and 
flourishing Sunday-school which is itself 
a direct result of the Kindergarten; 
young girls who are in Bible classes and 
others who are in English classes ; some 
of our graduates have come into the 
chuich ; numbers of sickly, unhappy 
children^ who, in our sunny rooms and 
under the kind care of the teachers, have 
become both well and happy ; mothers* 
meetings, where the dignity and res- 
ponsibility of motherhood are emphasized. 

Our beautiful Christmas celebrations 
may be well called results of the Kinder- 
garten. AV^e have one in the daytime 
for the Kindergarten children only, 
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a whole day of liai)j)ine8«j, Ix^cause *' it is' 
Christ's birthday." Tlien at the Sunday- 
school colcbration, hundreds of men and 
women wlio seldom or never come to 
church, crowd in to see and hear tlio 
wonderful things their children are 
dolnj;. At this time wo always have 
a short and simple talk on Christmas, 
and what C-hrist's cominj^^ means to 
them, as well as to the children. Tiie 
talk is so direct, so simple they cannot 
fail to understand it. This is one of 
th«' jrrcatest opportunities of tlie year, 
l^ndhjss op]X)rtimiti(^s for direct Clirist- 
ian work are ours. 

These are a few of the known results. 
What shall we say of the unseen in- 
fluence we must have exerted on the 
hu.sy c*onimunity of ix)rcelain painters, 
l>ox and ci<rarette makers, and many 
other work(jrs among whom we live? 
Only God whom wo serve and whose 
we are,' can measure this. 

AoNivs Donald Gortk^n. 



The Maebashi Kindergarten. 

The Maohaslii KinderLmrten was begun 
in 1893 by Miss Mary II. Shed, then a 
teacher of Eni^lish in the Kyoai Girls' 
School, in Maebashi. She had Ixjcome 
convinced, through her calls in the homes 
of the school girls, that a Ciiristian 
kindergarten, carried on according to 
modern methods, would bo a great help 
to the Cluistian work. There was 
already a kindergarten in connection 
with the Normal School, but that was 
far from satisfactory, and Miss Shed's 
idea was to establish a model kinder- 
garten. Soon a house was rented for 
the purpose and the Kindergarten had its 
home there for about three years, 
when a suitable buildiner was erected. 
Miss Slied raised the funds for this 
building, by standing homo Japanese 
curios to 1)3 sold. She returned to 
America not long after, but, almost up 
to the pres(Uit date, she has continued to 
aid in the support of the Kindergarten, 



by s/jliciting gifti? from friends and by 
selling Japanese pictures and curio?. 

From the very beginning, the Kinder- 
garten has received the cordial supix)rt 
of th(i Maebashi people, and it has never 
been jx)ssible to take all the chiltlren 
who have applied. The pupils all come 
from g(X>d homes, and a great number 
from those of the official class(»s. Three 
01' four years ago tlu^ kindergarten build- 
ing was enlarged to meet the retjuiremonts 
of tlie government, and then the Mae- 
bashi people showed their appreciation 
by contributing liberally. There is an 
annual grant of two hundred t/en (^ lOO) 
from the American Board, but the other 
expenses have been met by tuitions and by 
Miss Shed's gifts. The a(?commodations 
are only large enough for forty children, 
and two teachei-s are employed. In the 
fiftfjen years since the Kindergarten >\-as 
l>egun, four of Miss Howe's graduaU-s, 
in succession, have served acceptably as 
head teachers. The present teachers are 
Miss Fukuraoto, a graduate of Miss 
Howe's Training School, in 1907, and 
her assistant, Mis? Masaki, a graduate 
of the Kyoai Girls' School, of Maebashi. 
They are both young, but they are 
doing excellent work, and the Kinder- 
garten is maintaining the high record of 
former years and enjoys the confidenc*^ of 
the Maebashi public. 

This kindergarten has been copied in 
Annaka [home of Dr. Neesima] and Aslii- 
kaga, towns in the vicinity of Maebashi, 
and it has reason to be proud of these 
two (laughters. There is a mothers* 
meeting in connection with the Kinder- 
garten, which is a help to the general 
Christian work. 

Fanny Enswohth Gijiswom*. 



The Growth of the Imadegawa 
Kindergarten. 

The Imadegawa Kindergarten bt^gau 
this year, the second of its second dec^ade, 
with a devoted corps of teachers, a full 
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tion nud confidence of a lari^o com- 
munity, manifested in ways which show 
that its presence is a blessing to north- 
enstorn Kyoto. Its early years on 
Deniachi, a few blocks farther east, were 
full of struiTi^le against fovs without and 
haiflships within, so that, taking its his- 
tory altogether, the lights and shadows 
aliout balance) wich other. Some twenty 
years bf^fore it was started, the first 
church in Kyoto was organized in this 
neigh bo rh 00 1 and carried on work, 
as well as a small, poor church could 
do, for some years, until it joined the 
Heian Church, in a remote part of 
the city, thus taking away from here 
the center of (evangelistic work. A 
dozen years followed and then the 
Kindergarten came to stay and make 
itself felt, in spite of opposition, and it 
has split the rock of predjudico which 
so long resisted Christian influences. It 
began as work for the humble class. It 
was born poor itsjilf, in dark, dingy, 
narrow, unsavory rooms. It had barely 
enough to buy \t^ insufficient outfit, and 
lived in a hand-to-mouth fashion, throat- 
eneil with death by starvation, as 
yearly "cuts" were fashionable, and, 
since something must be given up, 
eyes turned to this little plant as 
the easiest thing to " wind up." But 
the needs of the neighlK>rhood had 
weight and it was allowe<l to live 
on. In the community, friends were 
few, enemies not a few. Priests warned 
the faithful to keep their children away ; 
public school teachers seemed armed in 
opposition. But, in spite of all, there 
were families that would send their 
children, for the tuition was only seven 
cents a month and it was a help to have 
their children out of the way, off* from 
the street and where they couldn't eat 
sweets continually. Such reasons held 
with the majority ; a few sent their little 
ones for the sake of the good received 
and these were a real encouragement; 
and they also helped the Kindergarten's 
reputation t<) spread. The attendance, 
the first years, was uncertain ; children 
came and went. The first class to 



graduate numlx3ted ten ; the second, 
eleven ; the third, eight ; the fourth, six. 
The outlook was discouraging; there 
were only a dozen children, all together. 
The head-teacher oftt^n spoke anxiously 
of the future ; the only comlort was, *' let 
us not be anxious; it is God's work. 
He will care for it, if we are faithful." 
The landlord was a rascal. lie kept 
niising the rent, for he knew that 
another suitable house could not be 
found. A crisis had come, and with 
it an idea. The mission-home was near, 
in a good lociition, opposite the Imperial 
Park, with plenty of ground and good 
air ; move the plant there ! But the 
money? another idea canu; — Ikj respon- 
sible for it, borrow and pay back with 
the rent. Then came a sofhn (consulta- 
tion) witii memlKTS of the station, who 
approved. Plans were made, and con- 
tract let in May ; in June the frame 
was up; in August, it was finished — 
two roon)S 18 by 18 each, and two 8 by 
{) each. The accommodation for thirty 
children, was thought to \yo. ample for 
years to come. Faith had a rebuke, 
for by September there were more ap- 
plications than room. The Kindergarten 
was beginning to be known. One day 
the wifii of a university professor, 
passhig by, was attracted by the sign- 
board ; the next day she came, with her 
little boy, for a visit, and the next, made 
application for him. It was the begin- 
ning of a growing acquaintance with a 
circle of fimilies which had been beyond 
reach. It was not long before the 
question of enlarging came up and thru 
the generosity of one who has given 
thirty-five years to Japan, the circle 
room was enlarged to hold twenty-five 
more children, and a small room was 
made into a class-room. A few years 
later, thru the kindness of Mrs. John 
Crosby lirown, of New York City, who 
has don(i much for the Kindergarten, 
a good class-room was added to the 
western side. Everything belonging to 
the place, inside and out, is associated 
with the names of those in America 
and Japan, who have so kindly helixxl 



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it to grow in efficiency. "When the new 
building was occupied, several Buddhist 
families pave a sum of money sufficient 
for a much-need(5d work-table — "to 
celebrate," they said. The wall clock 
is a memorial of one of the little ones 
removed to the Heavenly Kindergarten, 
as is also a large framerl panel, inscribed 
with the words of Jesus, when He 
blessed little children. This is, in brief, 
the story of the Imadegawa Kinder- 
garten's growth. Like a family of 
small -means, it has built and enlarged 
and added according to its increasing 
size and imperative needs. Wear-and- 
t^ar and repair are ever present. As 
the adopted child of the Eastern Maine 
Branch of the Woman's Board, it 
receives a yearly grant, which, with the 
tuitions, covers only the actual running 
expenses. 

FlX3RENCE H. LeARXKI). 



Kindergarten and Sunday 
School. 



From the first the Kindergarten and 
Sunday-school have kept pace together, 
the latter being a sort of Sunday edition 
of the former. It is a great satisfaction 
to know til at most of the parents wish 
their children lo continue on in the 
Sunday-school, fo tliat all the classes 
have Kindergarten children in them and 
some ar(i largely composcjd of them. A 
family of ten have all become Cliristians 
largely because of this continuous touch 
with the Sunday-school. It caused a 
thrill of joy when the s(;venteen-year- 
old son in this family, one of the Kinder- 
garten's first graduates, was the first 
one received by baptism into the new 
Imadegawa Church. H<? came home 
esj^cially from the Normal School which 
he is atttuiding in a neighboring pro- 
vince, to join the C^hunjh of the place 
whic^h had been his spiritual home from 
kindergarten till he h^ft the Sunday- 
school and Christian En<leavor Society, 
of which he was president. One of the 
most interesting of the Kindergarten 



families has, for yeai*s, been growing into 
Christianity. They used to say that 
they had no use for religion except to 
get decently buried by the priests, which 
was a necessity. No children are more 
regular than theirs, at Sunday-scliool. 
It is plain that they are putting them 
in the Christian Way. The grand- 
mother is devoted to the grandmothers' 
meetings. 

The infant class is a nursery to the 
Kindergarten, as many of the little 
" tots" in it are there to get acquainted, 
preparatory to kindergarten. 

Last month the Sunday-school, which 
was too large for the rooms, was divided 
in two — the main school meeting in the 
morning and the primary part in the 
afternoon, to the very great advantage 
of both schools. The international Sun- 
day-school lessons and helps are used. 
The great ofxjasions of the year are 
Children's Day and Christmas, which are 
beautifully celebrated, the children 
preaching the Gos^^el to "full houses." 
They, one and all, vote Christmas the 
best time in all the year, and look 
forward to it with lively interest. Christ- 
mas is called the time of "receiving" 
and Children's Day, of " giving," but at 
Christmas, too, the Sunday-school and 
Christian Endeavor Society complete the 
happy festival by remembering and 
carrying to a poor little orphanage in 
the city, the gifts purchased with the 
December contributions. A Kinder- 
garten child when asked what she 
want(Kl most of all last Christmas, said 
very sweetly, "anything will be nice 
because everything is God's." The 
Sunday-school i)eimy -contributions last 
year amounted to 26 yea, nearly all 
of which was sent to the Okayania 
Orphanage. 

The Imadegawa Church may be said 
to be the fruit of the Kindergarten and 
Sunday-school, since almost everyone 
in it is in some way connected with these 
two branches of the work. The converts 
of the past years, united with other 
churches in the city, so that it has a 
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It has started with goorl faith and 
courage, and is a live, working church, 
hut poor in pocket. Were it not that 
some inorahor of the family stands in 
tho way of those wlio would make a 
profession of faith, the church would 
number more, for the long seed sowing 
has reached many who are at heart, 
believers. 

Fix)RNCE H. Learned. 



The Kindergarten as an 
Evangelistic Agency. 

Ko one in kindergarten work cnn 
doubt its value as an evangelistic force, 
especially now-a-days when many parents 
desire for their children, moral training 
based on the teaching of Jesus. 

The Imadegawa Kindergarten's work 
in interpreting tho spirit of Christianity 
to the community and opening the way 
for evangelistic work, has l)een large. 

The homes connected with it wek*omo 
its good influence over their children. 
Many have had little ones in it for years 
and have a sort of family feeling for it, 
taking it for granted that every successive 
child and grandchild has a place there. 
The disinterested, devoted service of tho 
teachers who make the Christian atmos- 
phere of the Kindergarten, is daily a 
silent factor that counts for much in 
winning the confid(}nce and esteem of the 
parents. The City Inspector of Schools 
recently remarked upon this, and heads 
of schools have asked the secret of it. 
The children themselves nro the In'st of 
little preachers. Their improvement in 
character is often remarked upon. Not 
long ago the teacher said to a child 
much given to tears, " O Yoshi San, you 
are a happy little girl these days ; are 
you good at home, too?" **Fe.5r, 
raamma says my photograph last year 
doesn't look like me now ; my face is so 
smiley." Little Miss Sunbeam's mother 
said, " Girlie and Grannie didn't get 
along well, at all, but since she goes to 
kindergarten, Grannie is growing fond 



of her ; she has improved so much." 

The children innocently talk al)Out the 
Heavenly Father and Jesus, who are 
real pei-sons to them, and insist on giving 
thanks at meal times, asking their 
parents to do so, or asking why they 
don't, and it would he a liard heart that 
could shut out the voice of a little child. 
Lately a father when congratulated on 
becoming a Christian, said, " Yes, my 
children and otlier good influences have 
led me into a better life." As a token 
of gratitude, he gave the Kindergarten 
a Japanese picture of the Good Shep- 
herd. It was the custom in this family, 
when monthly bills were due, to say, 
" the master of the house is absent." 
Once the little boy ran to the door and 
said, ** he is in." He was punished . 
for telling the truth and it broke his 
little heart. His sorrowful face touched 
his father, who, to comfort him, took him 
out and bought him some toys. This, 
and other similar lessons from his child- 
ren, ended in his conversion. 

In another family where the children 
are in tho habit of saying grace at meals, 
one day little Spring wasn't in the 
grace-saying mood ; whereupon the older 
brother reported to the mother, who 
called out, '* Spring, say grace and then 
you may eat." Little Spring was mum. 
The father, a Confucianist, in the next 
room, overhearing, opened the screen- 
door and commanded, " Spring, say 
grace or you can't eat ! " Tiittle Spring 
said grace. The fatiier had been addict- 
ed to sakr (wine). For his lx)y's sake, ho 
has given it up. He says he wishes his 
son to be a Christian. A new member of 
the Imadegawa Church, in telling how 
he Ixicanie a Christian, said, " I was an 
atheist, ambitious, restless, discontented. 
I put my boy into this kindergarten 
from curiosity to see what the effect 
would bo on him. I watched to see. 
He brought home queer ideas that my 
habits of life didn't agn^c with, which 
made me tliink. I concluded they would 
Ikj good for my wife to practice. ' Then 
I began to study the Gospel and to go 
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content loffc my heart and ])eace canio 
in. Ciu'ist satisfied me." He and his 
wife are happy, active Christians. AVitli 
his Bible and New Testament commen- 
taries, he prepares himself for preaching 
the Gospel whcuev^^r he meets men, as he 
travels in the pjefecture as inspector of 
silkworms. 

The children, as a rule, stand high in 
the common schools. One day a 
teacher asked his class, expecting a 
patriotic r<;i)]y, ** who is the greatest in 
our cx)untry ? " *' God," was the prompt 
answer from a Kindergarten graduate. 
A little girl came home saying, " mam- 
ma, the teacher said, if we weren't good, 
the walls and p)sts would see. Why 
didn't he say * God would see * ? " 

Mothers* meetings, grandmothers' 
meetings, and cooking classes, all well 
attended, have grown out of the Kinder- 
garten. They are excellent forms of 
evangehstic work, not to say anything of 
the many homes open for calls ; so many 
that it is impossible to fully improve the 
opportunity. 

Florence II. Learned. 



The Tollori Kindergarten. 

The Tottori Kindergarten is the only 
institutional work the Mission has in 
Tottori, and except the C.M.S. Kinder- 
garten hi Yonngo, ninety miles away, 
there is no other Christian school in 
Tottori pro V nice, with its 404,000 inhabi- 
tants. 

First, as to its history, a immbor of 
years ago Mrs. S. C. Bartlett then one 
of the resident missionaries in Tottori, 
established a play-school for her own 
children and as many Japanese children 
as could be accommodated. The play- 
school was such a success, and its 
influence so great, that when the s(jhool 
had to he clostid, because Tottori was 
temporarily bereft of missionaries, two 
of the Christians w(mt to Okayama, 
seeking pcM'mission to reopen the school 
as a kindergarten in one of the unused 
mission-houses, and asking for contribu- 



tions to help in the expenses. The 
permission was granted and a little 
money contributed and the play-school 
was re-open wl as the Tottori Kinder- 
garten, in April, 190(5, with Mr. Kata^iri, 
a deacon of the church, as principal, 
three teachers, two of whom grariuatwi at 
the Normal School, and over forty 
children. AVheu Mr Benn^^tt and I 
toured through the field, a few montlis 
lator, we found the children liaving a 
lovely time, playing in the ample 
grounds around th(» mission-house, I>ut 
very crowded in the tiny, unsuitable 
rooms. 

The Kindergart(«n was pretty well 
supplied with gifts and occupations, but 
alas! with no trained kindergarten 
teacher. In April, 1907, the trained 
teacher came, however, in the person of 
Miss Yu Nishimori, one of Miss Howe's 
most efficient graduates, and since that 
time, the Kindergarten has taken on new 
life, manifests a true, kindergarten spirit 
and shows marked improvement in dis- 
cipline, and in its effect on the children. 
One illustration will suffice to show the 
difference the trained teacher made in 
this kindergarten, — she instituted the 
" kindergarten program " whei-o there 
had been none hi'fore. 

After the coming of the trained 
teacher, the most important event in the 
history of the Tottori Kindergarten was 
its being taken over by the Mission in 
January, 1 908, as a part of the regular 
mission work, with an appropriation bv 
the W.B.M.P. of #130 a year, to meet 
its expnses. There were various rea- 
sons why the change in management 
seemed advisable, one of which was the 
financial one, and the possibility which 
th(5 change affi^rded, of getting a much 
needed, suitable building. When the 
Mission assumed th<} responsibility, there 
wore forty children and two teachers in 
the Kindergartf^n. 

Now as to the future : — it has always 
Ixien a problem to know how t<^ keep a 
hold upon the children who have left the 
Kindergarten, and scattt'i'ed to the 
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year's cliiss of twenty- three graduated 
in March, we organized it and la&tye^ir's 
f^raduating class of twenty-two, into a 
little alumni society, meeting fortnightly, 
and so we are trying to keep the children 
under Christian influenceshy their songs, 
games, hymns, nature study, and Bible 
stories. 

AVe hope to get a suitable, new build- 
ing, in the near future, but we have not 
yet got the money. The lot and build- 
ing, at the cheapest, will probably cost a 
thousand dollars. It is necessary to 
have this building, if we are to continue 
the Kindergarten, because the mission 
housT;, wliere it is held at present, may 
be wanted for resident missionaries, and 
lxK«use tlio house is very misuitable, 
i neon v^en lent, far too small, and docs not 
Tueet the government regulations for a 
kiudeigarten building. 

Does the Kindergart<;n pay? Wliat 
are its results? As little weather-cocks 
show which way the wind is blowing, so 
we think that our little weather-cocks 
show very clearly which way the spirit 
of our kindergarttm is moving, — toward 
the developing of stronger little Inxlies, a 
more kindly treatment of dumb animals, 
truer uprightness of character, more 
lovingkindness and unselfishness in the 
play together, less of quarreling, more 
reverence for and knowledge of God, — 
truly a wind of the Spirit which will vvaft 
the little children nearer the Kingdom 
of Heaven. 

How do the little weather-cocks show 
these things? The mother of one little 
lx)y was very much troubled Ix.'cause 
b(i did not eat enough rice, but now 
after his healthy, happy play, and easy 
work at the Kindergarten, iiis appetite 
has grown to be as large as that of the 
proverbial small boy. Another little 
weather-cock <lid not like to have her 
face washed, but, at the Kindergarten, 
she heard a sad tide about a naughty 
little lamb, who would not be waslied at 
the stream, and so the thread made from 
its wool was very dirty, and not wanting 
to Ixj like the dirty little lamb, she gladly 
consents to having her sweet, chubby, 



little face washed every morning. Anoth- 
er little weather-cock cried bitterly 
when he was brought to the Kinder- 
garten, last April, and quarreled sadly 
with his little sister at home. Now his 
teal's have changed to one of the happiest 
of habitual smiles, and his mother is so 
thankful that under the influence of the 
Kindergarten, her two little children 
have ceased their quarreling and really 
*' love one another." The mother of one 
little boy was very much troubled because 
he had a habit of stealing money; but 
now she gladly acknowledges that the 
influence of the Kindergarten has broken 
the habit, and ho lias grown into a 
"good, all-round boy." Like many 
other chiklren these children were very 
cruel to the poor, dumb creatures and 
used to j>ersecute the various bugs and 
ants that came in th(iir way, most unmerci- 
ful ly. After some simple lessons in 
natural history, well saturated with 
mercy to animals, they have completely 
changed and are now, if anything, too 
loving to the creatures. 

These little weathor-cocks were very 
proud and did not like to acknowledge 
themselves at fault, but after four 
months of patitmt training on the part 
of their teachers, and not a few tears 
on their own part, they readily say, 
" Please excusti me," when they have 
even accidentally hurt one another or 
been rude to one another. Now they 
are learning to say, ** Thank you." 

The teachers were troubled because some 
of the children showed a little impatience 
and rather a selfish spirit when another 
child's requested game was played, and 
not the one they wanted. After careful 
thought and prayer, one of tlie teachers 
told the children, at their morning 
lesson one day, that it was the duty of 
true knights to make others happy, and 
that they could bo true knights by 
gladly acquiescing in another's wishes to 
play a game, thus making their little 
playmates happy. It was a hard lesson, 
as it is indeed, for us older folks, but 
the children are trying to learn it. A 
few days latei-, during the game-period 



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there was an occasion to remind the 
children of their ideal as knights, in 
making one another happy, and simul- 
taneously, with absolutt^y no prompt- 
ing on the part of the teachers, about 
half the children seemed to bo thinking 
out loud, " Ix)ve your enemies, love your 
enemies." The older children are devel- 
oping the chivalry of true knighthood in 
their care for the little ones, and in their 
gladly allowing the little ones to " go first." 
With all these good things, they 
have learned the best thing, too, about 
the Heavenly Father and that He is 
always with them and loves them, and 
that He Is the greatest of all, even greater 
than the Emj)ei"or, and that He made the 
world and all things; and about God*s 
Son, Jesus Christ, and alx)ut his won- 
derful birth. Won^t you pray that the 
loving spirit of the Christ Child may 
ever be manifested among the little 
children? Anna AV. BKNN>rrr. 



The Hanabalake Kindergarten. 

This kindergarten in the " slum " 
district of Okayama, has had so short 
a life, not being yet two yems old, that 
it has done little w^orth writing alx)ut. 
The Kindergarten was started with 
the object of helping mothers who would 
go out to work, but were kept at home 
by little children. Our room can \ac- 
commoflate only thirty, so we have had 
to refuse many. 

Those who come, have bright, happy 
faces and, in spite of the grime and dirt, 
many of them are very lovable. We 
try to emphasize cleanliness in every- 
thing. There is always a damp cloth 
at the entrance and the children wipe 
their feet with this as they enter. The 
next thing is to go to the back veranda 
where each one washes his face and 
hands before coming together for the 
morning meeting. 

One dear, little fellow was impressed 
by the teacher's prayers and one day at 
home asked his grandfather to pray. 
The old man was much puzzled over 



the small l)oy's request, but was a^in 
urged to pray " as my teacher does.'* 
When the gi-andfather refused, saying 
he did not know how, the little boy 
advised him to go to the meetings and 
learn. This was the l>eginning of the 
family's coming to the evening meetings. 
It is too early to report results, but wr» 
hoj^e in this case " a child may lead them." 
We have been impressed with how much 
influence environment has in forming 
the thoughts and lives of these children. 
When they Jive in the midst t>f so 
much sin, it makes us tremble for their 
future. Little Ju San's father and 
mother are on the city garbage-cart force 
and one day when allowed to draw 
anything they liked on their slates, Ju 
San drew something that might l>e a cart 
with somnthing in front and something 
beliiud. When asked to explain, he said 
it was a garbage cart drawn by the father 
and j)ushed by the mother, with the 
baby sister riding on a piece of matting 
on top, growing fat on all the bacteria. 
This last, however, he did not add. 
Another boy from a Christian homo, 
drew a cross, saying, "that is Jesus.** 
Others drew thuigs too bad to mention, 
but, in their innocence, they didn't 
know the meaning of what they were 
doing : it only showed what they saw and- 
heard while in their homes. 

One little girl recently said that she 
asked a blessing before eating, when 
her father and mother were away, but 
she was afi aid they would laugh if they 
saw her. We ho})e she will soon give 
thanks even when h(jr parents are at 
home. 

Wejiave no little chairs for the chil- 
dren, so they sit on the floor around 
the tables, and enjoy their work with the 
L'ifts as mu<!li as otluT children. The 
Kindergarten is doing a good work, and 
makes the childi-en think, teaching tbera 
kindness and thoughtfulness toward 
others. I wish all might have this 
(»urse before entering the Jinjo Sho 
Gakko (Primary 8chfM>l), for the kinder- 
garten children do the best work. 

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CONTENTS. 

Genebal Notes. 

Pebsonaua. 

Kobe Woman's Evanoelistic School. 

GERTEUDE COZAD. 
TsuTAHA, Past and P&esekt. 

a a WHITE. 
Phases of Wobk at Tottori. 

A. A. WALKER. 
Thivos as Thet Seem on AfiRivAii. 

MARY ELIZABETH 8TOWE. 

The Ebina Meetikos J. H. PETTEE. 

The Htuoa Evanoeliotic Caicpaion. 

C. B. OLDS. 
Some Fibst Impeessions ...G. H. STOWE. 

Getting Adjusted MUMEI. 

Shin-Ai Sunday-school E. E. GARY. 

How Can the Y.M.C.A. Best Help the 
Chtoch? G. a PHELPa 



General Notes. 

The new Komachi Church (Matsujamm) 
is neariDg completion. 

* * * * 

The Eojo Church, Osaka, as a result of 
specuil meetings, received 38 into the church 
on the lOth. 

* * * * 

"Bev. Shikanosuke Nuka^ has just heen 
ordained pastor of the Niigata Church, hy 
the Ewanto Btikvau He has recently heen 
married to Miss Chiyo Hori, daughter of 
Bev. T. Hori, of Maebnshi. 

On A pi 5 the new church at Miyako-no-jo 
was dedicated. Tiiis building was due al- 
iDott solely to the indomitable enterprise 
and self^Muarifice of Mr. Clark. The Hoso- 
shima Christians are worshipping in their 
new charch, altho it is not quite ready for 
dedication. 

* * * * 

The Japan 0. E. Union resuscitates its 
former monthly, under the name Kyorei 
Sekai, Endeayor World. Rev. T. Hachi- 



hama, sometime Dr. Greene's literary m 
tant and more recently pastor of Kakuyo 
Church, Kyoto, if the Japanese editor, 
while Dr. Pettee resumes charge o^ the 
English department. 

3K 3ic :)c :ic 

We regret to learn that Mr. J. Ishii, the 
well known founder and present superintend- 
ent of Okayama Orphanage, is lying seri- 
ously ill at his home in Oica^ama. Tho 
better in some respects, than at times during 
the past month* it is feared he has an 
incurable disease (nephritis). His faith and 
patience make a bright lining to the dark 
cloud of weakness and forced inactivity. 

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At the last meeting of the Missionary 
Association of Central Janan, at Osaka, the 
subject was, ** How may the Y.M.aA. best 
serve the Church?" We give a p<Hrtionof 
the lengthy, but most excellent paper by 
Mr. Phelps, regretting that our space 
forbids reproducing more of its good things. 
Mr. Phelps is Y.MTCA. Secretary, at Kyoto. 
Mr. M. Narahashi, a graduate of the Do- 
shisha and a classmate of Prof. Nagasaka, 
of Kobe College, has recently become 
secretary of the Kobe Y.M.C.A. 

♦ * * * 

Thanks to Miss Gulick, Mr. Curtis and 
Dr. Cary we have a good share of the com- 
plete file of Mission Ke>k*s we hope to 
obtain. Our list of wants comprises Vols. 
LNos. 1, 2; 11,4; IIL .3, 4, 6; IV. 1,2; 
V. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8; IX. 2, 6. Any one 
who can spare any of these, will confer a 
favor by sending them to the editor. Quite 
a number of copies of Vol. VL 6, 6, a double 
number styled " A Third of a Century of 
Christian \Vork " by our Mission, have 
come into our hands and may be had by 
missionaries for four sen, to cover postage, 
or free in exchange. 

* * * * 

Three ChriBtian ^irls were graduated 
from the Miyazaki Girls' Higher School, in 
March, one of whom was immediately 
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in her native town, TakanaT)e. Of the four 
(■hristians in the recently opened girls' 
department of the Normal Scliool, two went 
iVom the mission home, and two of the three 
Christians now in the Girls* Higher School 
are from the same place ; alrjo the single 
representative of Christianity in the Miya- 
zaki Industrial School, All these, and four 
others also who are public school teachers 
(two of them earnest Sunday-school, work- 
ers\ were led into the Christian life largely 
by the influences brought to bear upon them 
in the missionary home, where they lived 
during the four years of their school course; 
:};)}£:{; ;jc 

Messrs. Pettee and White attended the 
second annual meeting of the Japan 8.S. 
Association, held in Tokyo, April 10 to 12. 
Some 50 delegates were in attendance, re- 
presenting half a dozen local associations 
and loo Sunday-schools. Special features of 
the meeting were helpful addresses by Dr. 
and Mrs. 11. M. Hamill, Bishop Mills and 
Kev. K. Mito ; the partial reorganization of 
(he society, by which voting delegates rep- 
resent clusters of schools, rather than 
sjngicones; the election of Rev. T. Ukai, 
hitherto fmstor of (xinza Methodist Chjirch, 
Tokyo, to be the salaried secretary; and the 
decision to meet next year at Kyoto. Rev. 
H. Kozakl, pastor of Reinanzaka Kumi-ai 
Cluireh, Tokyo, presided at most of the ses- 
sions and was elected president of the As- 
sociatibfi for the coming year. 
; . >fc >ic H« ?K 

Following are figures for entering classes 
in April, with a few totals in the schools. 
*2G1 entered the Doshisha, m iking a total of 
805, distributed thus: theological, 40, college 
48, academy 5J^i, girls* higher course, iJ4, 
girU' aca<lemy, 158 — Kobe College, academy, 
i'y^t supplementary course, 10, college 6 — 
Woman s Kvangelistic School, 9, total 21. — 
Glory Kindergarten, li9, total C4; Training 
School, 10, total 19— Imadegawa Kinder- 
garten, 18— Tottori Kindergarten, 22— Mae- 
baslii Girls' School, 48; Kindergarten, 28 — 
Baikwa Girls' School, 25, an unusually small 
entering cla^s, probably due to removal of 
the school to the outskirts of the city. — 
Mutsuvama (tirls' School had 20 enter for 
graduate study, including 15 from the city 
and provincial schools; total in the school, 
8H; the Night School has a total of 129.— 
So-Ai Kindergarten, 32. 

^ JK Jii M-. 

The Factory Girls' ITome (Matsuyama) 
(Stands to win by the recent arrangement by 
which the factory, in common with other 
factories, dispenses with night work for 
a time, because of business depression, and 
discharges half the employees. None from 



our Home will be discharged, but, instead^ 
we are desired to receive njore. It may be 
said, in this connection, that the cotton yarn 
business, in Japan, is very dull, owing largely 
to the greatly lessened demand for yarns in 
China. China is a silver country and hard 
times prevail there because of tlio deprecim- 
tion of silver. The recent Tatsu Mara inci- 
dent^ leading to a boycott of Japanese goods 
in general, has intensified the existing de- 
pression. On Apl 8 the cotton mill interests 
met at Osaka and decided to suspend night 
work for a few montlis. Either a diminu- 
tion of hours or else a curtailment of 27% of 
the number of spindles has more recently 
been agreed upon. 

* * * * 

Mr. H. J. Bostwick, formerly treasurer of 
our North China Mission, at Tientsin, has 
been superintendent of the Clifton Springs 
(N.Y.) Sanitarium, for some years. Rev. G. 
P. W. Mer.riit, M.D., also formerly of the 
same mission, is on the medical staflT of that 
institution, and is treasurer of the Inter- 
national Missionary Union, which anna.tlly 
convenes there. -Mrs. Bostwick is Correspond- 
ing Secretary. The 2oth annual gathering 
of missionaries of all societies, from all lands, 
will be held at Clifton Springs, Je 3 to 10. 
Thru the hospitality of the Sanitarium 
and" village, entertainment Is provided for 
all pa^t and present foreign missionaries 
and for all actual appointees. For pro- 
grams and further information, address Mrs. 
Bostwick. Every missionary who can at- 
tend should make every effort to be present, 
to receive the uplift, and. heart-warming out- 
look upon the great missionary movement 
in all parts of the world. 

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The following brief tribute was prepared 
by a committee, appointed for that purpose, 
at the semi-annual meeting of the Boarii of 
Managers of Kobe C>llege, April Uth, 1908: 
The Boa:d of Managers of Kobe College 
desire to place on record their sense of loss 
in the death of Dr. Atkinson, and their 
appreciation of his valued service to the 
school during more than thirty years. He 
had charge of the erection of its first build- 
ings thirty-three years ago, and from that 
time until his death, he was always ready 
to give his counsel, to serve on the school 
committee, and in emergencies to teach 
its classes. Neither the weariness of long 
evangelistic tours, nor the press of work and 
business cares during the later years, pre- 
vented him from giving time and. strength 
to the school whenever it was needed. 
Among the manifold labors which filled 
a well-rounded and successful life, that so 
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College wf» not the least, and it merits 
lastinff remembrance bj all the friends of the 
school. 



Personalia. 

Louisa Clark is in the high school 
at Oberlin. 

Louise Gulick is teaching in the nor- 
mal school, Honolulu, T.H. 

Dr. Gordon Berry, recently under- 
went an operation for appendicitis, but 
he is now at his hospital work again. 

Rev. Danjo Ebiua is leaving Japan 
soon, via America, to attend the Inter- 
national Congregational Council, at 
Edinburgh, Je 30 to July 9. 

Edward Clark helpt the high school 
win last year, in the del)ato with the 
academy, and is on the team again this 
year. He is active in C. E. work. 

Miss Hoyt has left Kobe College on 
two years' leave of absence. She is 
spending two months in language study, 
in Maebashi, Ix'fore leaving for America, 

We regret that the condition of Rev. 
W. L Curtis's health renders it impera- 
tive for the family to return to the 
United States, as soon as possible, for 
rest and treatment. 

Miss Mabel Jencks is to be married 
next summer, to Mr. Hartshorne, a stud- 
ent at Andovor Theological Seminary, 
and thero is a prospect that thoy will 
enter foreign mission work. 

Q rover Clark has charge of a small 
ranch in Riverside, Calif. He lives 
alone and even cooks for himself. He 
is there hoping that by a two years let 
up from study, his eyes may get well. 

Dr. J. C. Berry and Mrs. Berry are 
contemplating a trip to Scotland, to 
attend the International Congregational 
Council, to which he has been appointed 
a delegate by the Massachusetts State 
Conference. 

U.S. Consul Greene, of Dalny, in 
forwardinpr his subscription to Mission 
News, writes, " Why not come ovt- r to 
Port Arthur and see the sights ? I hope 
the Oarys will come tliru here, instead of 
trying the Antung- Mukden line." 



Dr. and Mrs. Greene attended the 
quarterly meeting of the W.B.M.P., at 
which he gave an address. They went 
to Los Angeles on Apl 9, where they 
expected to see Ensign Edward F. 
Greene, upon arrival of the battleship 
fleet, at San Diego. 

During Mrs. Pettee's recent visit to 
Tottori, she addressed a large meeting of 
one hundred and ten women and child- 
ren. The noteworthy feature of the 
meeting was that all the planning and 
the work for the meeting were done by 
the Japanese Christian women. 

Mr. John M. Gaines is one of the 
busy men of N.Y. City. He resides 
with wife and "three rollicking boys," 
at Lawrence Park, Bronxvillo, N.Y. 
Mr. Morrell W. Gaines with wife and 
two little girls, spent the winter in the 
City. Miss Ruth Guincs spent the past 
year in Boston. 

Admont Clark is one of the leading 
violinists of the Conservatory Orchestra, 
at Oberlin College. He recently won in 
an intersoeioty', sophomore oratorical con- 
test Last fail he was elected president 
of the College Civics Club, which counts 
on its rolls nearly all the men in the 
college. 

May 6 there was a station supper at 
Dr. Learned's, in honor of the Athertons 
and Chandlers. Mrs. J. M. Athorton 
and party, of Honolulu, are spending a 
few weeks in Japan, after which they 
will visit Hongkong and Manila. The 
Chandlers are paying a brief visit en 
r&ide to their field in India. 

Rev. O. H. Gulick, at 78, is geaki 
(active), getting up at 3.30 a.m. and 
hustling by carriage, to catch a steamer 
at 5 a.m. to convey him and Mr. Oleson, 
the new secretary of the Hawaiian 
Board, to one of their preaching appoint- 
ments. They are doing a great deal of 
touring among the islands. 

Miss Edith Woolsey, of New Haven, 
who is traveliner around the world with 
her bro, Prof Woolsey, of the Yale Law 
School, spent Satunlay and Sunday, 
Apl 25, 26, at Matsuyama, visiting 
Miss Judson. Miss Woolsey is a mem* 



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ber of the New Haven branch of the 
W.B.M., by which Miss Judson is sup- 
ported. 

■ Capt. Luke W. Bickell, of theFuku- 
in Maru, has recovered from his recent 
attack of typhus fever, and is again at 
his post in command of this Baptist ship, 
which carries the Gospel to the small 
islands and remote places generally un- 
visited by other Christian workers. 
Gapt. Bickell shmvs his appreciation of 
Mission News by renewing his subscrip- 
tion for five years. 

Rev. Marshall Richard Gaines, M.A., 
has been principal of the high school at 
Cofft^e, Va., since last Bep. The school 
is partly a Massachusetts missionary 
enterprise, situated in the Piedmont 
region, with dry, bracing climate, and 
fine scenery. For 11 years previous to 
last Juno, Mr. Gaines had been in the 
service of the A.M. A. Mr. and Mrs. 
Gaines were members of our Mission, at 
Kyoto, from 1884 to 1889. Mrs. Gaines 
is a sister of Rear- Admiral Asa Walker, 
U.S.N., retired. 

As Miss Gulick was about to leave 
Hyuga, two farewell meetings were held 
in Miyazaki ; one by the Old Peoples* C. 
E. Society, and one by the Church and 
Fvjinhmi together ; also, one each in 
Obi, Nobeoka, and Hososhima. In all, 
there were the usual complimentary 
speeches and poems, with opportunity 
for a parting: word of love and exhorta- 
tion. Jn Miyazaki, over fifty people 
came together for an o sushi supi)er be- 
fore the meeting. In Nobeoka the 
special feature was a group photograph. 

Our Mission feels a sense of personal 
loss in the death of Rev. Chas. Cuthbert 
Hall. D.D., late President of Union 
Theological Seminary. Twice had he 
visited Japan and repeated, in several 
cities, the substance of his India lectures, 
with marked result in attracting atten- 
tion to his sympathetic, frank recogni- 
tion of the good qualities of oriental 
religions and civilizations, and in win- 
ning from a considerable circle of edu- 
cated Japanese, careful attention to his 
cogent, clear-cut presentation of the 



salient truths of Christianity. In our 
homes. Dr. Hall was a gejiial, welcome 
guest. We have a few copies of his 
first course, "Christian Belief Inter- 
preted by Christian Experience," which 
may be had by members of the Minion 
who know where to place them to ad- 
vantage. 

Kobe Woman's Evangelistic 
School. 

The new home of the Woman's Evanr 
gelistic School of Kobe is pleased to pay- 
its respects to its friends thru the i>agc3 
of the Mission NEwa For many years 
it has been on its way to Kobe and at 
last it is really here and is beginning to 
feel quite as if it had always been here. 
It has appropriated its full share in tho 
garden of the teachers' home without in 
the least enci-oaching on it, and like a 
well behaved new comer, does not stand 
in the light of the home, nor shut off its 
view. In fact the only thing it does 
shut off is a little noise and dust from 
the street. Since it is so well behaved 
we thought it no more than just to give 
it a gardeni of its own, and between the 
main building and the dormitory, we 
have a Japanese garden with the usual 
equipment of rockery, palm, pine, maple, 
azalia, cherry, etc. The entrance to 
both school and doimitory is from this 
garden and usually will l>e found hospit- 
ably opin by any friends of the School 
who will come to visit us. 

The southern exposure of the maui 
building has verandahs glassed in to take 
advantage of the warmth of the winter 
sun, and on this side, projecting from 
the center, is the Julia E. Dudley Memo- 
rial Chaj^l, with a tablet to the memory 
of the one who gave twenty-five years of 
beautiful service to this school and whose 
presence seems to linger here, an inspira> 
tion and blessing to us all. Openmg off 
of this on either side, are recitation rooms 
which can be thrown into the chapel for 
large gatherings. This arrangement 
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aro other recitation and administration 
rooms on the first floor, and on the 
second floor aro eight sleeping rooms 
and three organ-practice rooms, the two 
functions, however, not being in progress 
at the same time. On the third floor in 
the roof gable, we have a quiet retiring- 
room, which is much appreciated by the 
women, as a place for devotions or quiet 
meditation or a place to get a superb 
view, including the beautiful Kodera 
Gardens, the whole expau3e of tlie city 
And the Inland Sea beyond. 

The building was dedii^ated April 
eighth, and we took advantage of the 
occasion to arrange for a series of meet- 
ings especially for the sake of our gra- 
duates, that they might come not only to 
look upon the new quarters as their 
school-home, but that they might go 
back to their fields of labor refreshed 
and inspired by the few days outing. 
The dedication was in the morning, and 
in the afternoon we had a confei cnce of 
women workers, with forty-six women in 
attendance, when subjects of special im- 
portance to them in their work were dis- 
cussed. In the evening there was a 
most interesting stereopticau lecture on 
Palestine, a pleasure most of them en- 
joyed for the first time. The following 
. day there was a helpful consecration 
meeting, followed by a social gathering 
in the afternoon. The whole occasion 
was a very happy introduction of the 
School to the large and promising en- 
trance class. 

We now have twenty one pupils, four 
of them in the higher course. In this 
class Kobe College (academy cour-se), 
Eaikwa Girls' School, Osaka, Doshi- 
sha Girls* School, Kyoto, and the Tokyo 
Woman's University are represented. 

We have recently issued a new catalog 

making a number of changes. The 

• Japanese name is changed to Joshi Shin 

. Gakko, the school year is changed to 

begin in April and to have the ordinary 

- vacations. Instead of the long summer 

vacation for outside work, the third year 

. qlass take one term off for gaining prac- 

. tical experience inx evangelistic work. 



We have secured good teachers to 
take special subjects, but are still looking 
for a teacher of theology and history, 
who shall give his whole time, who shall 
represent the school before the churches, 
shall exert an uplifting influence over 
the students, and shall bo a wise counsel- 
lor to both teachers and pupils. Until 
we can secure such a person we feel that 
there is a very serious lack in the school, 
but since our needs in other lines have 
been so well met, we feel confidence that 
this special need will l)e well supplied. 

Wo feel very grateful indeed to Mr. 
AHchin for his helpful suggestions, to 
Mr. Seki for his able and careful super- 
vision, and to the friends of the school in 
America, who have made it possible for 
us to erect this beautiful building. 

Gertrude C'ozad. 



Tsuyama— Past and Present. 

A small number of Christians at 
Tsuyama were organized into a church 
in 1890. Six years later, at their 
urgent invitation, the missionary family 
was sent and continued in residence, 
barring a furlo, until 1906. When we 
came the limit of education was the 
primary school, but a few years later a 
l)oys' middle school was established. The 
education of girls beyond the primaiy 
grade, was hardly thot of, except among 
the Christians. But at their earntist 
desire, the missionary lady joined with 
them in starting a small school, in 
which girls could acquire a little more 
learning. It was carried on until a sen- 
timent favorable to higher education for 
girls had grown iip, which led to the 
founding of a government high school. 
It was much help to Christian work. 
Only a few weeks ago the writer met a 
Christian school-teacher, who received 
her start in both these directions, in that 
school. 

For many years the church had no 

home. Services were held in rented 

houses, with frequent change of location, 

. as the result. In 1903 a lot was lx)ught. 



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upon which a house of worship and a 
parsonage were erected Since that 
time the growth of the church has l^een 
rapid. When we moved hero, it num- 
bered about 20. A large accession 
came in 1906 as a result of " shvchu*' 
work. Since that time there has not 
been a communion service without bap- 
tisms. Last Fall again there were a 
large number. With the additions the 
first of this mouth, the membership is 
now over 200. Among those recently 
baptize<i, special mention should be made 
of a man 75 years old, wlio came with 
his wife. Under the feudal government 
he was a commissioner of temples in 
Tsuyama. One of his duties was to 
carry out the measures in force against 
Christianity. Until a few years ago ho 
was bitterly opposed to it, but the in- 
fluence of relatives has at length pro- 
vailed and the entire family (eight) is 
now Christian. 

There has been one striking conver- 
sion this Winter. The man is a skillful 
physcian of middle age. From his 
youth very fond of the national drink, 
he has used it to excess. Once jor twice 
a moijth he would go on a spree. Spend- 
ing the time at a hotel, he left his 
patients to get on as they might. For 
many years he had recognized the evil 
of it, tried various expedients to break 
off, but in vain. His wife and older 
daughter were church members, but he 
himself had never got beyond simply 
thinking Christianity a good thing. The 
la.»<t of December he again yielded to the 
habit. A younger daughter, a Sunday- 
school scholar, but not baptized, now 
suddenly became ill. Her father was 
sent for, but would not return. An- 
other doctor was called, but his help did 
not avail. A few days later when it 
Avas seen that she could not live, her 
father was sent for again. He returned 
shortly before she died, but was not able 
to do anything for her. This heavy 
aflliction brought him to himself and 
at last to the only source of power that 
could save him, Jesus Christ. The 
service when he was baptized, was most 



impressive. There was hardly a dry 
eye in the church, joy and sorrow being 
mingled in this result of years of prayer 
and effort. As one Japanese expressed 
it, " she became a sacrifice for hira." 

The Church Sunday-school is so flour- 
ishing as to cause embarrassment. In 
December the missionary was chosen 
superintendent for the present year. 
The average attendance is somethiQg 
over 200. There is a corps of 1 3 teach- 
ers, but the classes are far too large. 
The crying need just now is a building, " 
for rooms of the parsonage have to be 
utilized for four of them. One feature, 
perhaps not in general use, is the naming 
of the classes after Bible characters. 

A few Christians live at Yamanisbi, 
a village throe miles east of Tsuyama. 
In February the local workers held 
meetings for a week, at one of their 
homes. As a result ten decided to begin 
the Christian life. One unusual thing 
was an exhortation from a middle-aged 
man, a teacher of Chmese Classics, a 
strict Confucianist, urging all to cmbraoe 
Christianity. While not quite prepared 
to do so himself, he believed it a most 
excellent teaching and the only thing 
which could cure the evil and supersti- 
tion prevalent in the village. 

An idea of the latter may be gained 
from the following incident One family 
had relations with a temple at Kasaoka, 
50 miles away, some distance west of 
Okayama. The man bought a piece of 
land. His neighbors, noticing the 
omission, said to him if he didn't make a 
gift to the temple, some calamity would 
be likely to come. He said he guessed 
it would bo all right The next year he 
died. His widow was informed that tbe 
god was anery and had sent his messen- 
ger (a snake) to punish him. Certain 
rites must .l)e performed to induce it to 
leave. So she had priests come from 
the temple, who spent several days there. 
Sometime afterwards a son becajno sick. 
Siie was told that tho the original mes- 
senger had left, another snake had been 
hatched there ; hence the rites would have 
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to see tlio folly of it all She is now 
rejoicing in deliverance from superstition 
thru Christ. This is but one example 
of the many and various forms of it, 
which arc rife in the country districts. 
But we may rejoice and thank God they 
are being dissipntod more and more 
rapidly before the advancing Light of 
the World. 

S. 8. White. 



Phases of Work at ToUorl 

I have often hoard it implied that the 
dense clouds which are supposed to hang 
in the sky of the Sanindo (shadow side 
of the mountains) the greater part of the 
time, are merely typical of the clouds of 
superstition an(i prejudice which obscure 
the mental and spiritual horizons of its 
inhabitants, so that even the enlighten- 
ment of this Meiji Era has been able to 
penetrate the shadows only very gra- 
dually, while the Gospel light has found 
still greater obstacles in the way of its 
diffusion. However, after a year and a 
half s residence in Tottori, I have corao 
to the conclusion that both the physical 
and moral atmosphere of this section 
have been unjustly slandered. As a 
proof of the former statement let me 
refer all those interested, to the careful 
weather rcpoit kept by the Tottori 
Kindergarten, where the white flags 
are certainly greatly in preponderance, 
during the fall months, and are sprinkled 
rather generously amongst the blue, 
red and green of the winter months. 
As to the latter statement, I hope to 
prove by the progress I have been able 
to note, even in this brief period, that 
things do move, even in the Sanindo, 
and not always at such as low rate either, 
tho of course we can never forget that 
the present progress is possible only 
because of the long years of faithful 
work on the part of the earlier mission- 
aries and evangelists. A good illustra- 
tion of this is a man who joined the 
church at the last communion. He has 
studied Christianity for over twenty 



years and been friends with tho various 
missionaries who have bcjcn stationed at 
Tottori, and most of his family have 
become Christians, but it was not until 
this year that ho himself finally came 
to the point of decision. It was an 
interesting sight to see this grey-headed 
man and a young girl of fourteen, taking 
their first communion together. 

Undoubtedly the greatest cause for 
rejoicing during the last year or more, is 
that the prayers of the church have 
])oen answered in tho coming of 
its new i)astor, Mr. Matsuraoto, from 
Takazaki. I believe the church feels 
now that the period of waiting was all 
for the best, so that it might get just tho 
right man and learn to appreciate him 
more thoroly when he did come. Mr. 
Matsumoto and his family arrived ju«t 
before the numerous Christinas festivi- 
ties, so that he was able to make some 
observations as a spectator before taking 
such an active part himself At his 
installation service, about a month later, 
there wore over eighty persons present, 
which is about twice the average Sunday 
morning congregation before the pastor's 
coming. Now thej-e are seldom less 
than fifty present and amongst these 
there are frequently new feces, and also 
those of church members who have 
seemed to be very indifferent for some 
time past, but now seem to bo aroused 
to new earnestness. 

The quartette choir, which has re- 
cently been organized with Mr. Bennett 
as its leader, has added very materially 
to the attractiveness and helpfulness of 
the services, and the half hour's* hymn 
practice after the evening service, also 
conducted by Mr. Bennett, gives all the 
congregation a chance to learn new 
hymns. 

The woman's society, under the leader- 
ship of Mrs. Bennett, its president, and 
her able assistants, has seemed to take 
on new life lately and has pledged itself 
to raise yen 200 to buy mats for the 
new church building. It has also adopt*- 
ed a constitution and appointed com- 
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as quickly as possible, it has decided 
to hold three meetings a month, two 
work meetings, at which the women 
make comforts, laundry-bags, babies' 
kimono y and dolls' clothes, to be sold 
either out here or in America, and 
one devotional meeting, at which mem- 
bers of the society, or outsiders, give 
Bible talks. The present plan is to 
have a prayer-meeting for the members 
only, every other mouth, instead of one 
work mooting, and try to make the other 
devotional meetings especially attractive 
to those who are not yet Christians or 
members of the society. 

The work among the young people is 
also most encouraging. When the mis- 
sionaries came back to Tottori two and a 
half years ago, only one boy in the 
middle school was a baptized Christian, 
and very few of the boys attended 
church. Since then at least ten other 
boys have joined the church and taken 
an active part in Christian work, and 
besides these many more boys have been 
brought under direct Christian influence 
in Mr. Bennett's weekly Bible classes. 
The fact that two of the teachers in the 
middle school are baptized Christians 
has undoubtedly helped to break down 
some of the strong prejudice that for- 
merly existed there. 

It seemed even harder to get a hold 
upon the boys in the normal school, but 
now one of them has joined the church 
and a numlx^r of others attend a Sunday 
aftcnioon Bible class, conducted bv Mr. 
Marumo, and weekly English classes, 
conducted by Mr. Bennett and myself. 

Mrs. Bennett has had most encoura- 
ging results from her Sunday afternoon 
Bible lessons with the girls' Zion Society. 
Just recently several of these girls have 
signed cards expressing their determina- 
tion to lead a Christian life, and one of 
these has already unite^l with the church. 

Besides these two societies for the 
older boys and girls, Mrs. Bennett has 
organized two]societies for younger girls, 
and these are now carried on largely by 
her capable Bible woman. Miss Inoue, 
with the help of one or two young ladies 



of the church. The children elect their 
own officers and appoint their own lead- 
ers for each meeting, but the brief 
Bible talk is of course always given by 
the Bible woman, and she and her helper 
oversee the work which the children da 
Both of the societies have made scrap- 
books to give to hospitals and to the 
kindergarten, and one of them was able 
to present some new hymn-books to the 
church at Christmas, bought with the 
proceeds fix>m their monthly dues. Now 
this society is planning to make and 
sell hataki (paper dusters) and so 
raise money to buy a new pulpit^chair 
for the new church. The other society 
is in a poor district, so it has not seemed 
wise to require dues, but the childrcm 
come in large numbers and there has 
been a marked increase in the attendance 
of little girls at the Sunday-school held 
in that placo. This school is progressing 
well with Mrs. Bennett as its superinten- 
dent and a capable corps of teachers, 
mostly young people who have recently 
joined the church. For their benefit 
Mrs. Bennett conducts a Sunday-school 
training class twice a month. 

Lack of space forbids me to raore^ 
than mention the fact that Mr. Edamoto 
and his wife have left the work which 
they have carried on so efficiently at the 
preaching-place in Tottori. and taken up 
the work in Kurayoshi and vicinity, left 
by Mr. and Mrs. Takata, who moved to 
Yuinura about Christmas time, Mr. 
Tiikata now has charge of the work 
there in Tajiraa, and his wife is rejoicing 
in the privilege of spendmg a year at 
the Woman's Evangelistic School in 
Kobe. Because of these changes Mr. 
Marumo and his family have moved 
into the preaching-place in Tottori, and 
he and his wife arc to have charge of 
that work. 

Daring my stay in Tr)ttori I have 
carried on English classes for girls of the 
high-school and a few others. Th'is year 
over fifty have been enrolled in tliese 
classes and all of them have received 
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had English oonversation. Naturally 
during the year various ones dropped 
out for different reasons, but roost of 
these were little girls who were unable 
to keep up with the older ones, so that 
over thirty took the examinations in 
Bible and English given at th*^ end of 
the course, and I was much pleased with 
tho intelligence with whicli most of those 
who had received no previous instruction 
in Christianity, so far as I know, were 
able to answer the questions about the 
teachings of the eight parables we had 
studied. It is also a pleasure to report 
that I have been able to bring one of 
this class with me to Kobe College, and 
I hope others may join us here later, 
helping to make still stronger the many 
ties which already bind the two places 
together. 

Amanda A. Walker. 



Things as They Seem on 
Arrival. 

As I found it hard en route here to 
realize that I was away from places I 
knew, so I've felt even in Japan, until 
blue stamps on letters, days and days 
apart, emphatically remind me that'Tra 
in another world. 

Outdoors the streets, tho trains, the 
houses, shops, and street cars look dif- 
ferent. Often the street is without side- 
walks, and only a few horses are in 
sight, so heavily loaded that it is no 
wonder that a sentence in one lesson is, 
** In Japan many horses are vicious." 
They are not driven, but lead by a man 
walking in front, loosely carrying a 
rope. When he leaves his horse this 
rope is tied around the front legs, a 
simple device, but effoctive. Men are 
pulling niguruma or two wheeled carts. 
At any rate, they load themselves as 
heavily as they do the horses. 

I can't yet remember to pass people 
on the left, nor get over tlie feeling that 
there will surely be a street car accident, 
for tho car is coming on the wrong 
track. The two trolley iwles on eacli car 



I noticed at once, and it didn't take me 
long to find that I could take hold of tho 
bar to which tho straps are fastened, in 
case the straps were all in use. 

When the street is muddy it is all 
covered with parallel lines three or four 
inches long, instead of foot prints. 

The houses, low, small, crowded togeth- 
er, with the front room turned into a 
shop, look que'-^r, with no chiranevs. 
Some of these shops have a dirt 
floor (domd) where any one can walk, 
but where geta (clogs) must be left and 
shoes taken off or covered, before going 
on the mat-covered floor. 

We find ourselves objects of curiosity, 
and I was amused to see one small child 
slyly take hold of my skirt and rub the 
cloth between her fingers. 

The climate has surprised me, for 
** from April 1st to Nov. 1st thin dresses 
may be worn," I was told. At no time 
in any winter, can I remember having 
worn so many clothes as during 
April, in the vain attempt to keep 
warm. We've had rains, dust storms, 
one driving snow storm (Apl 8-9) that 
stopped all traffic, broke telegraph and 
telephone wires so thoroughly as to sever 
Tokyo from the outside world, a snow- 
fall of six inches ! 

Imagine an American audience listen- 
ing to any college dramatics for five 
hours ! But I went to one here that 
began at six and lasted till eleven. It 
was in English, sometimes so good as to 
make me forget the boys were not Amer- 
icans. 

Last Saturday night I went to the 
Easter service at the Greek Cathedral. 
The music without any instrument, the 
gorgeous bishop's mitre, and the splen- 
dor of all tlie robes, the abundance 
of gilt in the decorations, and the weird 
effect from tho candles that the people 
were burning all over the church, con- 
trasted utterly with the brilliant stars, 
the beauty of the pine-trees and the still- 
ness outside, as we rode back. 

Though the Japanese live in the midst 
of this Ixjauty and appreciate it, the 
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appears as they grow older, and this 
forces one to admit tliat even apprecia- 
tion and sympathy with l)eauty in nature 
can not satisfy one's whole being. 

Mary Elizabtti h Stowe. 



The Ebina Meetings at 
Okayama. 

As elsewhere, Rev. D. Ebina is very 
popular in Okayama and always draws 
a full house. There had been for more 
than a year, an unfulfilled promise that 
he would oorae here and hold a series of 
meetings. The early days of April saw 
this engagement met and the anticipa- 
tions of his friends were more than real- 
ized. 

His subjects for the three evening 
sermons to a church full of people were, 
" The lieligion of Feeling," " The Reli- 
gion of Will," and " The Religion of 
Intellect." 

He also gave three morning addresses 
to a chapel full of the leading Christians 
of the city and region, on the general 
topic, S/ihiko no AtardKhiki Kim (The 
New Basis of Faith), in which he urged 
impressively that important as were the 
Bible nnd the church, the true basis for 
faith was the individual consciousness of 
sonship toward God, the |)ersonal ex- 
jxirience of communion with God's Spirit 
anil a practical acceptance of the j)rin- 
ciples that governed Christ's life. While 
no show of hands was askt, many im- 
portant decisions must have been made 
in the breasts of those present, and 
regular Bible classes are showing results 
of the stirring series of meetings. 

Mr. Ebina was deeply imprest by the 
fact that hundreds of busy Christians 
should come together on consecutive 
week-day mornings, to hear his adresses, 
and s|X)ke of it as unique in the religious 
history of Japan. Another experience 
which j)k'^sod him greatly was an ex- 
tendi^ intervitjw which ho lield with the 
present head of the Kurozunii branch of 
Shinto, at the headquarters of tliat sect, 
three miles west of Okayama city. 



Naturally the resemblances between the 
Gospel of Munetada Kurozumi and that 
of the Great Nazarene, were emphasized, 
and both parties were astonisht to find 
how many such there were. The pres- 
ent head of the shrine, the fourth in 
succession from the renowod Munetada, 
is a well educated, catholic-spirited gentle- 
man, with who30 bearing and conversa- 
tion all are favorably imprest. 

In view of the fact that Mr. Ebina 
starts shortly for Edinburgh, to repre- 
sent the Kwid-ai churches, at the great 
International Council, a dozen or more 
Doshisha graduates residing in Okayama 
and vicinity, took the occasion of his 
recent visit here, to give him a cheery 
farewell. 

J. H. Pettee. 



The Hyuga Evangelistic 
Campaign. 

In making up the chronicles of the 
churches of Hyuga, the future historian 
will doubtless characterize the spring of 
1907 as a soason of .special ingathering, 
while he will speak of the spring of 1908 
simply as a time of marked religious 
activity. But in either case he will per- 
haps ascribe the visible results to t!io 
special, organized, evangelistic movement 
known everywhere in Japanese society 
as " shiichu dendo.^' 

Since the MrssiON News of a year 
ago (Vol. X. No. 7) published a brief 
characterization of a similar movement 
in the province at that time, it may not 
be amiss, in writing of the work that 
has recently closed, to make some com- 
parison with that of last year. 

In the first place, it is fair to say that 
the work attempted this year was 
broader in its scope than last year. 
Then the movement was confined to the 
thre(i largest centei's, while this year 
continuous meetings of three days or more 
were hold in four places, three in inde- 
pendent or Japanese-supported churches, 
and one in a mission-supported church, 
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five other places. It was, therefore, 
while coming far short of our ideal for 
such a work, much more of a provincial 
movement than that of last year and 
better calculated to advance the interests 
of the Kingdom in t!io field as a whole. 

The first campaign was in Hososhima, 
the nearest point of access for the three 
spacial workers who came down from the 
uorth. Here the soil was virgin, as the 
place had been passed by in tiie special 
effort of tlie previous year, which was 
partly an advantage and partly a dis- 
advantage. The disadvantage lay in 
the fact that the nature of the work con- 
toraplated had boon imperfectly under- 
stood and the field consequently inade- 
quately prepared for a real spiritual 
work. It was therefore a hard fight 
and yet not a fruitless one. Nine new 
converts were baptized and better still a 
new spirit of church enterprise was 
inculcated in the Christians, which should 
result in better things for that church, 
especially as they come into their new 
house of worship which is now all but 
ready for dedication. 

The next battleground was Obi — 
courageous, large-hearted Obi — as one 
!nust speak of that devoted company of 
Christians, after a few days among them. 
Hero various hindranctis were met, quite 
sufficient to account for the failure to 
obtain greater results. But the Christ- 
ians were faithful. Every morning 
they came together to pray, they 
prayed to achieve results and they 
worked to achieve results. One must 
know something of the sacrifice and of 
the heroism that is incarnated there 
before he can appreciate Obi. The 
devoted pastor, Takenouchi, has boon 
making a fight with death for a year 
past ; he has sounded the depths of son-ow 
in the death of one of his children ; he 
has straggled manfully against poverty 
to give his large family the b^'st, and yet 
in it all he has never for a moment lost his 
faith, but, socond(Nl by his equally heroic 
and effiiiont wife, he has prayed and 
labored in?i^ssantly for his litth; fiook of 
Christian?, with the result that while 



in many places largo numbers of the 
new converts have speedily dropped 
away, of the thirty or more taken into 
the church at the close of the special 
meetings last year, the faith of all but 
two or three has held firmly, and the 
gain in spiritual power has been great. 

Another result was the attainment of 
financial self-support. They lose their 
beloved pastor — his disease has mora 
and more got the upper hand and now 
he must devote all his energies to fight- 
ing it — but they are earnestly looking 
for a successor and their words of high 
purpose at the special service to celebrate 
their attainment of independence, were 
words of courage and determination. 
Thirteen new Christians were baptized 
here, four of them mothers with babes 
in arms, a sight as novel as it was 
touching. 

The next place — Miyakonojo — was a 
place where large things were planned 
for, large things were attempted, but 
extraordinary weather intervened to 
prevent large attainment. Only seven 
were received here, though as many more 
registered their decisions. But the chief 
event was the dedication of the fine new 
church building which stands as a monu- 
ment to the faith and sacrifice of Mr. 
Clark, who has done everything to make 
the church possible. Also to be men- 
tioned is the convening of the Kyushu 
Bubvai (Association) and the ordination 
of I^astor Okamoto in connection with 
the meethigs. Miyakonojo church has a 
great field and a great responsibility, 
and as all are but children in the faith, 
we are not without some apprehension 
for the future. 

Last of all is Miyazaki — only a three 
days campaign this year and but seven 
converts resulting. Nothing great was 
planned for, nothing great achieved, but 
a gain nevertheless. With this last 
series the montfi's work in Hyuga 
cIosojI. 

To sum up results, we have gained in 
aotiessions to the churches, a Ultlo more 
than a tliird of the number recorded last 
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cieucy of the churches we trust there has 
been a substautial gain in every place 
reached. C. B. Olds. 



Some First Impressions. 

Even after hearings many times that 
Japan was a land of contrasts, 1 am 
still, after seeing them for a month, 
finding new ones every day. Beauty 
and squalor ; artistic decoration and care, 
opposed to wretched disregard and neg- 
lect of much very essential from a sani- 
tary standpoint, is ever before one. You 
are charmed with the almost affectionate 
care bestowed on the tiees, even to the 
extent of going over the branches of the 
pine-trees and picking out any dead 
needles, as wc were told was done in 
some of the temple grounds. The land- 
scape gardening in some of the parks and 
gardens goes far beyond anything of the 
kind that I have ever seen before. 

What delights me most, however, is 
the children, with their happy and bright 
faces, dressed in their gay kimono^ 
walking, and running on their seemingly 
clumsy wooden clogs. Everyone seems 
to love the children, to judge from their 
gentle and affectionate care of them. I 
have many times seen old and ugly men 
work hard that they might be rewarded 
by a smile from some stranger baby, 
and many a father have I seen gently 
caiing for and amusing his small son or 
daughter. There is also much courtesy 
shown the women in the street cars. I 
have rarely seen a woman stand for any 
length of time, even in the crowded cars. 

The startling mixtures of European 
and Japanese costumes are an ever new 
source of amusement, but it is only tho 
men who wear the foreign dress or semi- 
dress, as it often is. I have yet to see a 
Japanese woman here in the streets of 
Tokyo, in anytliuig other than her native 
costumes. 

But what seems to mo the saddest of 
the sights I have witnessed, was at the 
temple of the Goddess of Mercy, at 
Asakusa, where at almost any time of 



any day, crowds may be seen passing in 
and out. I have been in other temples 
here, but at this particular one unusually 
large crowds come, and the men and 
women in the midst of dingy and un- 
cleanly surroundings, partly caused by 
their encouraging the presence of flocks 
of doves throughout tho temple, \vould, 
after offering their gifts of money, try to 
attract the goddess' attention by clapping 
and rubbing their hands. The importun- 
ing which some would not rest without, 
as though they must find peace and help 
before they left, was most pitifiil, and 
yet this very acknowledgement of a need 
for help from some power outside and 
greater than themselves, is in itself a 
hopeful sign. Little children canie in 
gaily, threw their rin (coin) into the 
great receptacle, clapped their hands and 
bobbed their bodies; while strong men 
and women prayed earnestly, and many 
an old man and woman implored the 
gi'anting of some petition. 

On every hand are evidences of 
change, showing that Japan is truly now 
in a transitional period of its career. 
Grace Hannah Stowe. 



Gelling 'Adjusted— A Student 
Missionary. 

First of all a call, seemingly one that 
could not bo refused, to a work for 
which she had always felt herself un- 
suited, and therefore to a work impossible 
to her. This call coming at first in a 
more attractive way than such calls 
usually come, gave her a term of resi- 
dence among a people of such absolute 
difference that tliey seemed in a diflerent 
world. 

With almost no time to study and 
with no natural ability to pick up know- 
ledge quickly, she was left an onlooker 
of this great crowd of beings, who jab- 
bered and chattered a language, to her 
as unintelligible as that of so many 
sparrows. All her life must and did 
center in the few of her own kind, 
around her — and in inemorios.i 

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Then the real call came ; for unfitted 
as she thought herself, there seemed to 
be some places in this strange country 
whore she was needed and wanted. 

Tlie struggle, the decision, then the 
real student life hegan. Again ties 
inuet be broken, a new home entered 
and new faces, new ideals, new problems 
must be met, and an effort to understand 
and enter in must be made. 

A year of nerve-trying, digestion- 
destroying study on the most difficult 
language on earth, then a new break, 
this time to what promised to bo a more 
permanent abiding place. Hope and 
foar struggle for master}', hope that she 
at last may begin to find her way a 
little within the strange circle and touch 
for her Master's sake, a few of its mem- 
bers hitherto strangers of a strange 
tongue — and to those who have never 
tried it the depths of that sentence will 
still remain unfathomable — and fear of 
heiwlf. 

Then began the unceasing effort to 
pick up now threads; to hold to old 
ones ; to get away from self ; to try to 
overcome lonely hours; to try to feel 
** belonging," tho the " where " might 
still be uncertain ; to answer as many of 
the numerous calls as ix)ssible and yet 
leave time for necessary duties of her 
leisure hours, and most of all to un- 
flinchingly crowd out everyThing tliat 
interferal with study hours. 

There must be certain social duties, 
recreation moments, correspondence, a 
line of reading, all these necessities for a 
wholesome, all-round, physical, mental 
and spiritual life. 

So the year goes and another is en- 
tered. This time a less lonely back- 
ground is a fact to be grateful for. The 
study must go on the same, the teaching 
hours increase, calls become more numer- 
ous, leisure hours decrease and in the 
same proportion tho ** must l)o done " 
things increase during those shortened 
leisure hours, even tho tired Ixxly and 
brain call for relaxation and restful 
change. Resisting the desire to enjoy 
the newness of a magazine, write a 



letter, indulge in housework or some 
other pleasurable thing, houi-s of study 
must be held strictly to, pushing aside 
as far as possible the desires and de- 
mands of other things 

Teachers of both sexes are sought, 
hoping thereby to gain a slight know- 
ledge of both tongues. 

To begin explaining the Bible in 
Japanese, practicing on the poor, long- 
suffering servants, is apart of her self 
appointed task. To work for hours over 
'* ;7" (Chinese characters), only to find 
the next week that they were only tem- 
porarily hers, is among her disappoint- 
ments. • 

Day after day thus goes by, half days 
being given to English teaching, which 
instead of strengthening the desired lan- 
guage power, only weakens it. She 
with not enough Japanese to givo her 
free entrance into tho inner lives of those 
she longs to touch, and they with not 
enough English to respond adequately 
in her native tongue! The longed for 
power even yet only a vision I Is it 
worth all the effort it takes, day after 
day, to keep before her an ideal which 
seems almost, if not quite inipossible of 
realization? A voice seems to reply, 
" You have not chosen me but I have 
chosen you." 

Is there no joy in being " cliosen " ? 
Are there no bright spots along the way 
of the " sent " ? Is there no pleasure in 
attempts to fulfill the Divine Mission, 
feeble as those attempts may be ? 

Yes, many times yes ! Above all the 
moments of disappointment and unful- 
filled longings, rings the assurance ** I 
know in whom I have believed ; " so 
with a prayer for daily strength, calm- 
ness anrl faith, trusting only in " Him 
wliose grace is sufficient," she looks for- 
ward to an increasing pleasure and even 
hoped for efficiency, in doing His service. 

Ml' MET. 



Shin-Al Sunday-school. 

The Shin-Ai Sunday-school, in Kyoto, 



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was organized by Mr. and Mrs. Curtis, 
and even after they went home for their 
vacation, it continued to fill their rooms 
to overflowing, until the house was 
needed by another family. Later a 
little printing office was Ijought and 
remodeled, and in that the school has 
found a permanent home, being now 
recognized as a part of the station work. 

In the school have grown up to Christ- 
ian womanhood, a class of girls who 
were early formed into a Sunshine So- 
ciety, later becoming a Christian Endeav- 
or Society. From this class have gone 
out twelve teachers in Sunday-schools, 
one being now a pastor's wife, and two 
others, kindergarten teachers. At pres- 
ent a similar class is being developed, 
from which we hope as good results. 

The corps of nine teachers, with the 
exception of the Bible-woman and my- 
.solf, are all Doshisha students. We 
have no specially new methofls in the 
school, but find that a chart covering a 
record of six months, with thermometor- 
like markings in red ink, to show att':u- 
dance, and in black, to show contribu- 
tions, is interesting the children. 

Two children are chosen each Sunday 
to be helpci-s for the day, to welcome 
new comers, tend the door, give an- 
nouncements, distribute cards or papers, 
and to serve in any way possible. The 
school has gained much in orderliness 
under this regime. 

The children decide how their contribu- 
tions shall be used, and often accompany 
one of the teachers in carrying a gift of 
eggs, fiuit, charcoal, rice, or ve^jetablcs, 
to sick or poor people. A few wec^ks 
ago the little girls had great pleasure in 
presenting to a poor family a quilt which 
they themselves had made. 

The school is pre-eminently for child- 
ren ; with the exception of a few grand- 
mothers, there are scarcely any over the 
age of fourteen. 

On Sunday afternoons the teachers 
meet to study the nr^xt lesson and to talk 
and pray over the problems of the 
school. 

A pleasant but unsought, bit of testi- 



mony came once from a teacher in a day- 
school, who came in at close of the 
session one Sunday. Ho asked if be 
might know what was taught there, as 
he had noticed that the children who 
attended Sunday-school were tho best 
behaved pupils in the day school, and he 
would be glad of any mforraation on the 
subject. 

Three schools similar to the Shin-Ai, 
are carried on in Kyoto, under the care 
of Mrs. Davis and Miss Denton, with 
teachers from the Girls' School ; there is 
another in tho Factory District Mrs. 
Gordon and Mrs. Ijearne<l also have 
large Sunday-schools under their diree- 
tion. All of these are in addition to tho 
regular church Sunday-schools. 

Ellen Emer«?on Carv. 



How Can the Y.M.C.A. Best 
Help the Church 7 

(1). By acting as the "halfway" 
meriting plaa? between the church and 
young nr:n. Whatever the theories 
explaining lack of interest in the chureh 
may suggest, a study of the field for 
fifty years has proven that the mass 
of young men remain away from the 
church, because of misconceptions regard- 
ing it, and because of lack of point of 
contact with the church after young men 
reach the age of adolescence. More 
than 75^0 of boys in America break 
away fiom the Sunday-schools and other 
influences of the church, when they oorae 
into their teens. It is to conserve this 
mass of manhood by holding it in touch 
with the cliurch, through the gymnasium, 
the social life and the other activities of 
the Association, that this special agency 
exists. (2). By interesting and training 
young Christians in special social service. 
There is no question but that the present 
movement among Christians in the 
direction of social l^etterment, is doing 
murch to i*ehabilitate the church with the 
ma?s:^s. (8). The Association can help 
the church by correlating the united 
eff()rts of the various churches in behalf 



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146 



of young men. This does not mean that 
any church must surrender its privilege 
of doing what it thinks itself called to do 
alone. It means that the Association may 
serve a large need by acting as a clearing 
house for certain common interests. The 
equipment of the Association can not 
be duplicate by each church, but each 
church may U3e it for the carrying on of 
its own work. For example, the Asso- 
ciation may become the center for the 
various church clubs of boys, of older 
men, of committees, of pastors. Sunday- 
schools may have their athletic meets, 
or their socials, in its building, young 
peoples' societies may rally there, union 
social and religious meetings may 1)e 
held there, and the large hall may be 
used for large special, evangelistic meet- 
ings. (4) The Association can help by 
exposing young men to the personal influ- 
ences of pastors and church leaders, by 
providing a neutral meeting ground for 
the two classes, by introducing young 
men to such church leaders, and by help- 
ing to create a desire in the minds of 
young men to seek the help of pastors. 
(5). The Association can aid the 
church by helping to popularize Christ- 
ianity among the masses. This is largely 
done by the spirit of service shown in 
popular work, like army work, work for 
shop-boys, etc., but also by the spectacle 
offered by so-called secular agencies of 
the Association. A famous general in 
Manchuria said to me, ^'I have had a 
Bible for ten years, but not till I saw 
this practical exhibition of the true spirit 
of Christianity did I ever realize what 
it really meant. I shall study my Bible 
hereafter I" Much growth in numbers 
and in spirit, will come to the church in 
Japan, with the larger resources of money 
that the widespread popularization of 
Christianity will brmg. (6). The As- 
sociation serves the church by standing 
in the community as a monument to the 
essential unity of Protestant Christianity. 
There is no record of the sects of Bud- 
dliism or of Roman Catholicism uniting 
in such a harmonious brotherhood as is 



afforded by the Y.M.C. A. I believe this 
one thing is what Arch- Bishop Ireland 
had in mind when he said that the only 
thing in Protestantism which the Bomau 
Church envied, was the Y.M.C. A. (7). 
The Association may help the church 
by occupying the entire field of opport- 
unity for work for young men. It must 
study the field, investigating the num- 
ber, conditions, temptations and needs of 
all classes, and the best way to meet 
those needs. It must become a specialist 
in this field. It must train the required 
leaders, secure equipment and discover 
the best way to use it It must carry 
on a forward movement all along its 
line. This advance should take place in 
the student department, in increased 
efficiency in Bible teaching and religi- 
ous meetings and in providing Christian 
hostels. The work, of the city associa- 
tion must be strengthened, especially in 
se(?uring better secretaries and in pro- 
viding more adequate equipment. The 
army department in Tokyo, is especially 
efficient at present, but the great door in 
Manchuria and Korea must be entered 
and branches started in several new 
divisions. But not alone should there 
be an advance along present lines ; there 
should be early beginnings in the work 
for boys, for the industrial classes, for 
railway employees. The Association 
should also develop within, along the 
lines of athletics, social service and 
technical education. (8). The Associa- 
tion can help the churches, especially 
at this time, by emphasizing to young 
men the cardinal doctrines of the Christ- 
ian church, viz., the fatherhood of God, 
the deity of Christ, the office of the 
Holy Spirit, the consequences of sin, the 
sufficiency of Jesus Christ as a personal 
Savior. It can also greatly help by 
emphasizing? the need of public confession 
of faith, of baptism, of uniting and 
working with other belrevers, and the 
necossity of cultivating the means of 
grace, such as Church attendance, 
prayer, Bible study and meditation, 
as. Phelph. 

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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE JAPAN 

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APRIL 30th, 1908. 

PREPARED BY 

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A WORD TO THE READER. 



While there is no longer any organic connection between the 
American Board Mission and the Churches comprising the Kumi-ai 
denomination, the latter having undertaken the support of thirty-nine of 
those which were financially dependent upon the Mission, leaving only 
about forty churches or preaching places still under its care, yet the work 
of the two bodies is necessarily so interwoven that any review of that of 
the Mission will naturally include a survey of the progress of the 
denomination as a whole. This is the more so because several of the 
missionaries are corresponding members of the Home Missionary Society 
and open to its call for evangelistic work, and, an increasing number, 
members of local churches in the work of which they have an active part 
in various positions. Indeed as the formal relation has been severed, 
association in the carrying on of the work may be said to have become 
more intimate, as one sign of which may be noticed the presence at the 
last annual meeting of the denomination, of two members of the Mission 
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168 MISSION NEWS. 



It should be borne in mind, therefore, by all who read this report, 
that while there is thus the most cordial co-operation between the two 
bodies in all Christian work, the Kumi-ai Charch is an entirely indepen- 
dent and self-supporting organization. It has indeed the honor of having 
been the first to become so, and hence has become a strong inspiration to 
all other denominations toward the attainment of a similar position by 
themselves. 



POLITICAL CONDITIONS. 



Politics atid Seligion Interactive. A few words in regard 
to political affairs will not be out of place, since the two realms of politics 
and religion in their mutual interaction, exert a great influence, the one 
upon the other, either to help or hinder progress. In the domestic sphere 
advance has continued steadily along poUtical and economic lines as laid 
out at the close of the war with Kussia. While there have been expres- 
sions of discontent at increasing taxes and the financial policy of the 
government, the nation as a whole seems to have recognized the 
inevitableness of the course laid out, if the Empire is to continue in the 
position it has attained as a first-class Power. Financial stringency 
following upon the panic in America, continues, in some degree, and is 
not without its efiects upon contributions to churches and charitable 
organizations. 

Corea, to all intents and purposes, become a part of the Empire of 
Japan, has, ovnng to this fact, at length entered upon a period of com- 
parative tranquillity and development in all lines of progress. 

Foreign Relations. When we turn to foreign relations we 
find that the sky has, at times, not been free from clouds which cast a 
shadow over the country, notably the continued hostile attitude of a 
small section of the western part of America towards the people of tliis 
land. The bearing of this upon the attitude of non-Christian Japanese 
towards Christian workers from the West, and the religion they represent, 
will be readily seen, while the Japanese cannot understand this attitude 
in Christian America, they have come to realize that it is hmited, for the 
most part, to a small section of the nation, and can have no permanent 
influence in interrupting the friendly relations between the two countries. 
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MISSION NEWS. 169 



and people of the West. Towards the removal of distrust and suspicion 
on both sides, the Mission has been honored in the valuable work of Dr. 
DeForest during his furlo. 

Japan continues to feel strongly that she has a great mission to 
fulfill in the East, as the standard-bearer of civilization and helper of her 
neighbors in moral development and progress towards national con- 
sciousness. This high destiny to which they feel called, is a powerful 
influence in the progress of the nation towards the highest and best in 
the moral life. 



SOCIOLOGICAL WORK. 



Okayania Orphanage. One of the most important institutions 
to be mentioned under this head is the Orphanage at Okayama, with its 
record of more than twenty years of making the most unpromising 
children into Christian citizens. During these years no less than two 
thousand children have been helped to a higher life. Concerning the 
past year the report says, ** of the eight hundred and twenty-five children 
received from the famine region two years ago, four hundred and eighty- 
six were returned to their homes. The total number of children now 
being cared for is seven hundred and twenty-six. 

The printing department, long a feature of the plant in Okayama, 
has been moved to Osaka, and twenty of the older boys assigned to that 
work. The year closes under two depressing shadows, a debt of over 
yen 70,000 and Superintendent Ishii's serious illness. Notwithstanding 
strenuous efiforts to secure funds, the debt bro't over from famine relief work, 
receives an added increment monthly, because of the hard times, and there 
is no prospect of immediate relief, except that furnished by the heroic 
faith of Mr. Ishii, who, prostrate in his sick room, confidently asserts that 
a way will be found out of the difficulty before the year closes. While his 
health seems somewhat improved over its condition a month ago, it is 
feared that he is suffering from an incurable disease and that his years, if 
not his days, are numbered. But he resolutely refuses to succumb and 
goes as far as his physicions will allow in personally directing the con- 
cerns of the Orphanage." 

Hanabatake. This Social Settlement workgithasby Continued to 






170 MISSION NEWS. 



prosper and grow. In the Fall a hospital for sick poor, capable of re- 
ceiving eight persons, was opened. Tliat this work for the outcast b 
appreciated in the city, is show^n by the fact that the Japanese have 
contributed over 7jen 2,000 for this building. 

The dispensary continues its rainistry of healing three afternoons a 
week, the daily average number of patients being thirty-eight. Another 
evidence of growth is the fact that ' the medical work now costs yen 120 
a month, instead of yen 50. The school work bas enlarged and- is proving 
its value in that district of the city. The industrial department earned 
yen 100 during the year, besides furnishing valuable training. Evan- 
gelistic work in connection with the institution, has been carried on faith- 
fully with encouraging results. 

Matsuyama IPactory Girls* Home. This Christian home 
established to save some of the factory girls fi-om the many evils connected 
with their life, is a unique work and one having widely reaching eflfects. 
It gives to girls of the lowest class of society the influences of a pure 
home and some degree of education, who but for this would receive no 
impulse towards better things. Those in charge keep in touch with the 
girls, even after they leave the Home. Thus its influences follow them 
and thru them ever reach an increasing number. The work is highly 
appreciated by the factory officials, who give a monthly contribution k> 
it and permission to the workers to visit and hold meetings with the girls 
living in the three factory boarding houses. 

Even those who at first bitterly opposed it have come to see its good 
results and now cordially welcome it. As the benefits of the Home be- 
come known applications for admission constantly increase and are now 
far beyond its capacity, fifty or sixty having been turned away. Thus 
the work is meeting with growing success and calls loudly for contribu- 
tions, that room may be provided to receive those who are desirous of 
coming into the Christian atmosphere of the Home. 

Matsuyama Night Schooh Since the last repoi-t, three years 
of high school instruction has been added to the education which this 
school is furnishing to those who would otherwise grow up in ignorance. 
The enrollment is now one hundred ftnd thirty. The intellectual educa- 
tion, however, is but a small part of what they receive. In the words of 
the report, '* probably not one of these many boys and girls would have 
been bro*t to Christ or lifted at all above the very low level of their start, 
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duct, mental ability, character aud ideals, from the rough, ignorant boy 
or girl who enters, to the Christian young man or woman of several 
years later, is a wonderful proof of the power of Christian education." 

Another of its graduates, maldng the second, has just comeback, 
after a course at Kobe College, to be associated in the work as a teacher. 
The institution is greatly in ne6d of more room and a larger number of 
workers. 



EVANGELISTIC WORK. 



Continued Bncouvaging Mesults. The j)rogress of 
Christianity during the year under review has been hardly if any 
less marked than in the previous one. The work has gone on 
along the same lines of activity, with as encouraging results. The 
same openness to hear and receive Christian teaching seems to 
exist thi-uout the country. The special form of effort known as 
'*8huchu dendo'* (concentrated evangelism) inaugurated by the 
denomination two years ago, has proceeded with no less enthusiasm on 
the part of the workers, and with as visible results in additions to the 
churches. It has been carried on in connection with larger churches and 
in a larger number of cities and towns. Owing to the great success 
which has attended this method of work, it has been imitated by other 
denominations and during the past Winter even the Buddhists have 
inaugurated a similar movement. 

The Annual Meeting of the Kunii-al Churches held 
at Osaka in the Fall, did not fall a whit below the high standard of 
recent years. Indeed a deeper spirit of consecration seemed to pervade 
the sessions. As at the two previous meetings, a large sum, later in- 
creased to yen 2,000, was raised with enthusiasm, to carry on the 
" shuchil dendo *' or forward movement. A rapprochement was effected 
between the Kumi-ai organization and the Doshisha which is an earnest 
of increased efficiency and progress for the denomination, bringing the 
school and the churches into mutually helpful relations once more. 
That the growing responsibility of the nation is appreciated by the 
Christians was evidenced by the large place which the evangelization 
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practical way, in the plans for work in Corea. A notable instance of this 
was the appointment by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 
organized at Kobe last year, of its president, Miss Watanabe, to be the 
first missionary worker in Corea for the coming year. She resigned a 
position as teacher in Kobe College to respond to this call for service. 

The Home Missianary Society is carrying on work in two 
places there, Seoul and Ping Yang, where there are already small bodies 
of Christians. The number of independent churches has been increased 
by four during the year, making fifty three in all, leaving thirty-six still 
dependent upon the Home Missionary Society. The special evangelistic 
eflforts, increasing rapidly the membership of the churches, and constant 
pressure from the Society are hastening them all on towards self-support. 

Special consideration was given to the case of the Niigata church, 
province of Echigo, long without a pastor and labouring under many 
difficulties. The denomination has now taken up the work and is 
pushing it with great energy, thus bringing new hope and courage to the 
Christian forces in that city. The new pastor is a representative 
of a large class of men in the Kumi-ai body, of large attainments, not 
especially educated for the ministry, who are being induced to take up 
direct evangelistic work. This is a movement of great interest and 
likely more and more to bring men of power into the service of the 
churches. In this connection may be mentioned the ordination of 
Mr. Imaoka as pastor of Hyogo Church, Kobe, significant because he is 
the first graduate of the Tokyo Imperial University to enter the ministry. 
As reported in Mission News, this year also saw for the first time, a 
son of one of the Kumi-ai pastoi-s consecrated by ordination, to the 
same work. 

A Kew Ceafer. Since the last Report, Sapporo Station has 
been divided in the interests of the work, and Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett 
have taken up their residence at Otaru. This is a bustling seaport, larger 
than Sapporo, but lacking the intellectual and refining influence of the 
latter. The churches number seven, five Protestant, a Greek and a 
Koman Catholic, but none of them is strong, either in numbers or financial 
ability. The position of the city as distributing and shipping centre for 
the northern island, renders it increasingly important as a field for 
religious activity, but the Christian force is entirely inadequate to the 
calls made upon it. The Kumi-ai church is financially dependent upon 
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towards self-support with a fine spirit. The missionary family has 
entered upon the work there with great enthusiasm and finds itself 
indeed much embarrassed by the multiplicity of openings. 

The Special Movement. For the sake of any who may not 
be familiar with recent work in Japan, perhaps a few words should be 
said in explanation of the term " shiichu dendo.'* Centers are selected, 
last year some twenty, where there are already churches. Then, follow- 
ing the example of Christ, who " sent them two and two before his face 
into every city and place whither he himself would come,'* pioneers are 
sent ahead to prepare for the work. The local workers have already 
been engaged in getting the church ready for the movement, daily prayer 
meetings being maintained from first to last. Now with this addition to 
their numbers, a regular campaign is organized, of personal work, house to 
house visitation, Bible instruction, individually and in classes, thus pre- 
paring the way for those to come. After this has gone on for ten days or 
two weeks, several pastors of reputation and long experience, from the 
large cities, arrive on the scene. Then for an equal period, work is carried 
on vigorously to bring the inquirers to decision and to create new ones. 
To the forms of activity previously mentioned is added the nightly preach- 
ing service which is always largely attended, giving, as it does, the people 
of these towns the opportunity to hear the best pastors in the denomina- 
tion. Of the two thousand one hundred baptisms during the year, pro- 
bably one half may be credited directly to this movement. A few 
instances will give an idea of the chamcter of this work. 

Special evangelistic meetings were held in connection with 
the Niigata church in December. It was the busy season 
for both students and business men, tlie former having examinations, the 
latter, the settlement of their accounts. " But,'* to quote from the report, 
" such is the reputation of Mr. Ebina as a speaker that the school author- 
ities gave word for the students to turn out in a body in school houi-s, so 
he addressed an audience of over a thousand young men. In like 
manner the Governor ordered out the officials." Such a thing in Niigata 
is unprecedented, for the people of Echigo have been especially prejudiced 
against Christianity and strong in their opposition to it, ever since the 
Mission Station was opened there, twenty five years ago. This is an 
example of the changed attitude towards Christianity which is being 
manifested more and more widely thruout the country, and gives hope 
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These special meetings were beld in a half dozen centres in 
Hyiiga . 

the Hyuga field, which, being in the Southern island, is 

most remote from the large cities and their influences, and hence backward 
in Christian progress. Not only did they result in large additions to the 
churches, but also, as the report says, in **a very noticeable development 
in the faith, earnestness and ix)wer for effective woik, on the part of the 
Christians.** 

Especially noteworthy were the meetings held at Takakasbi in 
Okayama Ken, where, as a result, ninety-seven united with the church, 
and a great impulse was given to its work, quite a number of influential 
men being bro*t into its membership. 

In the city of Kyoto the Heian and Shijo chmxihes united 
in a campaign, resulting in great blessing to them. Eleven 
pastors and evangelists participated in it. Two meetings were held in the 
City Assembly Hall, and simultaneous meetings nightly at the two churches. 
Great interest was awakened. To quote one instance, ** one person tele- 
graphed to a business man in Tokyo, * come home at once, no matter what 
you are doing, very important.* The man was surprised, on reaching 
Kyoto, to find that he was summoned to attend religious meetings, but he 
was among those who decided to be Chnstians ; one of the first things he 
did was to go to a town about forty miles distant, where he used to live, his 
object being to thank a former teacher who, a score of years ago,- used to 
m'ge him to be a Christian, and spoke words that he had never been able 
to forget, altho until now, he had not followed them." Soon after these 
meetings ninety-eight persons were baptized in the Heian, and sixty- 
eight in the Shijo church, while many inactive Christians were aroused 
and bro*t back into the service of the churches. I will close the record of 

this form of work with a reference to that at Ayabe, also 
Ayabe 

in the Kyoto field. The meetings were beld there early 

in January and the church celebrated its reaching self-support on the 
]2th of that month, by the reception of eighty-six new members. 
In the words of the report, "These new members took up all the 
room, seated on the floor of the little church, so that the old members 
had to sit in the small gallery, or stand looking in at the windows. 
Most of these new members were female operatives in a large silk 
filature which employs about eight hundred hands, and whose super- 
intendent is an earnest Christian man. The pastor has held four 
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teach and train the new converts and two for the nearly one huadred 
inquirers." 

Japan not yet Uva^igelized, While this movement is being 
carried on with such pronounced success, apd large numbers are being 
added to the churches, it would be a grave mistake on the part of the 
reader, to conclude that Japan is nearly evangelized and the need for 
missionary work here almost past. To show how far this is from being 
the fact, I can not do better than to quote from the words of Dr. 
Davis, in regard to the Kyoto district. " The saddest part of the report 
of the Kyoto field, is the record that thirty yeai-s after we have entered 
this field, the larger part of it is untouched. The great rich Yodo river 
valley, in the south, is not being touched or worked at all, save as the 
Shijo church and Methodists are carrying on weekly meetings at Fushimi. 
The region west of Kyoto, extending to the Japan Sea, ninety miles 
distant, has in it only three Kumi-ai and one or two Episcopal workers. 
On the east is Shiga Ken, embracing the rich Lake Biwa basin, with a 
population of 8U0,000 and more than 1,200 towns and village. There 
is no foi-eign missionary in the province and only seven or eight 
Japanese workers all told. The great mass of the population is as 
unreached and untouched as it was thirty years ago. How many 
more generations of these millions about Kyoto, nmst pass away without 
hearing the Gospel ? One generation has already gone since we entered 
the city." 

An even padder thing, as the writer makes up this report, is the 
thought that any one of several other names from among our Mission 
Stations, might be substituted for Kyoto, in the above quotation, and the 
description still remain true to the facts. In Echigo there are scores of 
unevangelized towns and villages on every side, and only a handful of 
workers. The same thing is true of other provinces. With all this work 
waiting to be done and the time ripe for it as never before, our funds 
have been reduced. Not only has it been impossible to take up any new 
work, but the reports from the stations tell of *an out-station closed * 
here, a 'Bible woman dismissed' there, a 'total lack' of funds for 
touring, 'work which was begun last year discontinued for lack of 
funds to adequately carry it on.' Hence two questions which close the 
Kyoto Station report, should be pressed home to the minds and hearts of 
the constituents of the Board in America. " Are we to have no funds to 
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mission cease active evangelistic work while there are thirty or fort}' 
millions in Japan who have never heard the Gospel? " 

Preaching and Touring* It goes without saying that 
preaching and touring constitute a large part of the missionary's work. 
These features have been prominent in the work of the different stations 
during the year, the latter limited only by lack of funds. The value 
of this work can not be over-estimated for the help it brings to 
weak churches and small bodies of Christians isolated in distant places, 
to say nothing of its value in helping to reach the otherwise totally un- 
touched masses, with the message of the Gospel. Preaching at the vari- 
ous station chapels and frequently in the churches with which the 
missionary is associated, forms no small part of his service in the general 
progress of the Kingdom. 

Bible Teaching. Much of the missionary's time is given also 
to teaching the Bible directly, either to individuals or in classes. No 
work is more fruitful in results. Even when it is the English Bible that 
is taught, and at first many, if not most of those who attend, do so for 
the sake of the English, they generally come in the end, to study it to 
gain a knowledge of the truth it contains. The number of those thus 
led to become Christians cannot be computed. The lady missionaries 
have a large share in this important work. The Japanese pastora also 
recognize its great value and engage in it as their time allows. One 
class of this nature, of especial interest, is i-eported in Tottori. The 
pastor conducts a weekly Bible class at the house of the chirf judge 
of the court. It has been attended by fifteen or more of the most pro- 
minent men connected with the court in that city. 

Stnulay-school Work. During the past year this form of 
work has come into even greater prominence and made great advance. 
It is coming to be recognized more and more by pastors, as well as other 
Christian workers, how very important it is for the future growth of the 
churches. The writer of the Miyazaki report says, " The work for the 
children is far the most important of all the Hyuga work, judged from the 
evangelistic standpoint." In the different stations many membei-s of the 
mission are giving much time and endeavor to this form of activity, with 
results which are most gratifying. Thus a large number of Mission 
Sunday-schools are not only being carried on, but in several places the 
entire Sunday-school work of the local church has been put in the hands 
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Following the organization of the National S. S. Union and to con- 
tinue Mr. F. L. Brown's work, from which it sprang, Dr. and Mrs. H. 
M. Hamill came from America last Fall. They arrived in November and 
spent six months travelling thru the country. They held meetings in 
some thirty five cities, and gave a great impulse to this movement. The 
second annual meeting of the Union was held in Tokyo, in April, just 
at the close of their visit. Delegates were present even from distant 
parts of the Empire, and a very successful meeting was had. Plans were 
laid for pushing the work with greater vigor and especially for pei-fecting 
a Sunday-school Uterature. 

Special Features. Eapid growth is reported at Kujo Chui*ch 
Osaka. The resident membership is now sixty, of whom a 
third joined during the year. At the May communion 
thirty-eight more were received, twenty-five of them on profession of 
faith. A society called the Kyoyukwai (Friends of Christianity) was 
formed in the Winter, for those who wanted to inquire further into 
Christian truth without committing themselves to it^ reception. Some 
seventy joined it, and it is from among them that most of the recent 
converts have come. 

A chapel work which the Kobe Station carries on at 
^""work ^**" Suma, furnishes an example of fraternal spirit in Christ- 
ian service, which we should like to see emulated widely. 
Suma is a beautiful suburb of Kobe, on the shore of the In- 
land Sea. The native population is hard to reach, but from otlier 
places have come in people of means, culture and tolerance, of whom 
some are ready to encourage such a Christian work. The mission pays 
the salary of an evangelist, while Christian residents of Suma, members of 
various churches elsewhere, pay the rent of $66 a year. Among them is 
an Episcopalian. This is the only Christian work being done in the town. 
The Evangelizing Society whose headquartei-s are in Okayama, has 
carried on its work during the year with its usual vigor and success. It 

has a most encouraging piece of work in a town eight 
Toyo Oendukwai o o r o 

miles west of the city. The Bible has been taught 

individually to some two hundred persons, of whom fifty received 

baptism. The funds which support its work are collected monthly by a 

secret process called TenJcoku Ginko (Bank of Heaven), in a<»ordance 

with Christ's teaching in Matt. 6 : 3, 4. The amount receiveij in this way 

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Special Instances of Devotion. Particular mention should 

^ . ■ be made of the devotion of Mr. Yoneyama to the work in 

Mft Yoneyama 

Echigo. A native of that province, he put his whole heart 

into the work there. He refused flattering calls to other fields, tho 
offered larger salary, better education for his children, and better condi- 
tions for health. He preferred to give his life for Echigo. At the time 
of the special meetings in Niigata, he rendered much valuable service, 
even to the extent of working contrary to his physician's orders, so that 
on his return home, he fell an easy victim to typhoid. At his funeral 
high tribute was paid to his firmness of purpose and high spiritual 
character by influential men from all over the country. Dr. Greene said 
of him that with the exception of Paul Sawayama, he was the most pious 
Japanese he ever knew. Another instance comes from the most 
southern station, Hyuga. In the town of Tsuma, two of a half dozen 
Christians, young business men, have worked with a devotion and 
effectiveness rarely seen. They have paid the rent of a building for 
meetings and all local expenses. But more than this they have put 

themselves into the work, especially for children. Last 

Summer the child of one of them, Mr. Sugita, was taken 
with several others to an infections disease hospital. As nurses were 
scai-ce the latter volunteered to go to cai-e for them. He finally suc- 
cumbed to the disease himself. His self-sacrifice intensified the interest 
in the town, among those whose children had been helped by him. 
Some decisions were made then to become Christians like him. In 
memory of him they follow the custom of \'isiting his grave at the close 
of Sunday-school for a prayer and song service. 

Work for Wofnen. This is one of the most important forms of 
work carried on, reaching, as it does, into the very homes of the people. 
Thus a strong Christian influence is bro't to bear upon the home-life, 
constanty working to raise its character. The number of churches 

without a Woman's Society is probably very small indeed. 
5^|U2^ In connection with these societies various forms of activity 

are carried on, in which the lady missionaries have a large 
share. If there is any philanthropic work to be done, the call is likely to 
come first to these societies. The public is coming to learn that any good 
cause can depend upon them for help. Thus thru them the influence of 
Christianity is extended to the uuevangelized. In many of the stations 
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^ ,, ^. on cooking classes. These are not only of value to 

Cooking Classes / 

those who attend, for the culinary instruction received, but 

also a means of reaching ladies of the highest class of society with 

Christian influences. 

The recent progress of Japanese women is indicated by the following 
incident. The editor of the largest Christian weekly paper, asked to 
speak to a Woman's Society, stated that while formerly such requests 
had been for talks upon various phases of. home life, of late they had been 
for Uterary and kindred subjects. Women's Societies are not confined to 
the churches. Almost every town of any size contains such an organiza- 
tion. Frequently missionaries are invited to speak before them, thus 
having an opportunity to extend their influence still further. 

Church JBuil€lin{/. This is now a most important feature in 
Christian work here. In the future progress of Christianity its value is 
more and more recognized. Since it gives a permanent home to the 
church, the community comes to regard it as an organization of power 
and influence. That the Kumi-ai denomination appreciates its growing 
importance is shown by the fact that a plan for a Church Building 
Society was submitted to the last annual meeting of the churches in 
Osaka. Unfortunately at the present time there seemed to be no way 
of financing such an undertaking, so no action was taken in regard to it. 
But certainly such a society could play a large part in the more rapid 
progress of Christianity in the country. No better use could be made of 
money than to back such an enterprise. This advance can be recorded 
during the past year, for the following places. In the Hokkaido, at 
Otaru and Immanuel, in the Kyoto field, at Hachiman, in Matsuyama 
at Komachi, and in Hyuga, at Hososhima and Miyakonojo. 



EDUCATIONAL WORK. 



In general the past year has been one of great progress in educa- 
tional circles. A recent regulation of the Department of Education has 
just come into force. In accordance with this the number of years of 
compulsory primary education is increased from four to six. The wide 
reaching effects of this, in raising the general intelligence of the masses 
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the larger number of pupils thus created, school buildiDgs have been 
going up all over the land. Missionaries are frequently invited to speak 
in these schools, thus having a chance to impress upon the rising gen^a- 
tion important truths which can not but bear fruit in after life. 

Educational work fonns directly a large part of the activity of the 
Mission. Its members are engaged in it in every form, from Kinder- 
garten to College and Theological School. The value of this work at- 
tended with strong Christian influences, can not be computed. Its 
efifects reach deep into society thru the young people thus educated. 

Ttie Doshisha. Under its new president (Kev. Tasuku Hara- 
da) this institution has had a prosperous year. Marked success has 
followed his energy and devotion. Alumni and friends of the school 
have generously contributed to meet its increased expenses. The 34th 
year b^an with the admission of 260 new students, maldng the present 
enrollment 806, a considerable increase over the previous year. The 
faculty has been strengthened by the addition of two members, the school 
thus reaping some fruit from its own work, since they are both gradu- 
ates. One of them. Prof. Mizusaki has taken charge of the Economic 
Department. After studying abroad he entered business. With his first 
success he placed in Doshisha as a memorial to those who assisted, 
him, an endowment of $400, to be used for needy students. With a 
spirit of personal devotion he has now i-esigned a promising business 
position to take up this work. The other. Dr. Nakaseko, has returned 
to the faculty after some years, becoming Dean of the Girls' Department. 
A long felt want in the Theological Department is supplied by Mr. 
Allchin's instruction in music, two days a week. Intimate relations have 
been established with the Imperial Univei-sity thru lectures by Dr. 
Gulick, in the University Department of Literature and Philosophy, on the 
** Development of the Eeligious Ideas of the Bible," and by Prof. Lom- 
bard, upon **Shakspere" and "Biblical Literature." During the year 
seventy-seven were received into the Doshisha Church. 

Kobe College. The most memorable event during the past year, 
was the dedication of the new building to be used for chapel, library and 
administration purposes. It is most admirably adapted to the needs of 
the school. The year closed with the graduation of the largest number 
in the history of the institution, 41, leaving a present enrollment of 210. 
An advance has been made in the degree of responsibility put upon 
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the place of teachers, as heads of the committees, with no loss in their 
eflfeciency. The teachers have withdrawn also from active membership 
in the Literary Society, with the result of added interest on the part of 
the students. The Student Government Association, too, is having its 
share in their development. In order to maintain the high standard 
of scholarship, the grade required for graduation has been raised. 
At the beginning of last year, a graduate of the Tokyo Gymnastic 
School came to take charge of that department, and has been doing 
excellent work. Religions conditions in the school have been most 
gratifying. There has been a deepening of thespiritual.life in the case of 
a large number. Sixty of the students have reported themselves as decided 
to be Christians. During the year eighteen have united with the church. 

Osaka Baikwa Girls^ ScJiool. During the year a great 
change has taken place in the outward conditions at this school. 
What had been the lady missionaries* home for many years, and 
the boarding house were sold and the premises vacated in July, 1907. 
With the proceeds of the sale land has been bought north of the 
main railroad station, for the site of the two new buildings, i.e., 
school and ladies* home. The land on which the recitation building 
stands, has now been sold and is to be given up in July, 1908. While 
the school has necessarily been greatly inconvenienced for lack of space, 
yet the work seems to have gone on with no apparent loss. Bible study 
has a prominent place in the school, and, while it is optional, practi- 
cally all the pupils attend. The C. E. Societies also are very flour- 
ishing. The average attendance of the school has been about 200. 
All friends of the school will hear with sorrow of the loss which has 
come to its principal (also pastor of Temma church), Mr. Osada, in the 
death of his wife, a devoted Christian woman, loved and respected by all 
who knew her, as was proved in many ways during her long illness. 

Matsuyama GlrW School. Its second year as a mission 
school has been full of encouragement. Eight graduated last March, all 
but one of them Christians. The number of pupils has increased some- 
what, at present being 80. Bible instruction has a prominent place in 
the work of the school and its strong Christian influences differentiate it 
from all other schools in the city. After a careful inspection of the girls* 
schools in Matsuyama by a man prominent in educational circles, he 
reported that this school is the only one that can be recommended for 
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Maehashi Girls' SchooU This school while not under mission 
control, receives help in teaching from the missionaries. A Christian man, 
formerly connected with it and so conversant with its history and 
ideals, has just become principal. With this change the Fchool has 
started upon a career of renewed prosperity. There were twenty-seven 
graduates and forty-eight entered with the new year, making the present 
enrollment 130. More than half of them are in the boarding depart- 
ment, which is a source of special satisfaction, as they are thus brought 
consbmtly under Christian influences. 

Woman's Bvangelistie School. The record of the year 
shows decided growth and prosperity. The school is rejoicing in the 
addition to its faculty of Miss Hocking, whcse work, however, for the 
present is the acquisition of the language. The addition of Mrs. Stanford 
to the faculty brought immediate and most timely assistance as she was 
fully prepared to take up work at once. The most noteworthy event of 
the year has been the completion and dedication on April 8th, of the 
new Theological Hall. The grade of the school has also been raised 
and ahigher course added, for graduates of high schools. The school 
year has been lengthened and made to correspond with that of the 
Japanese schools. Provision is made, in the final year, for one term's 
practical work away from the school. The scope of the carriculum, 
too, has beten enlarged by the addition of several branches. With this 
new equipment fully adapted to its needs, the school begins its 25th 
year with fine prospects for growing success in its most important field 
of work. 

Kobe Kindergarten Training School. During the year 
this school has become a member of the Kindergarten Union, an associa- 
tion of Kindergarten workers, both Japanese and foreigp, without 
distinction of denomination. The first annual meeting was held 
at Karuizawa in August, 1907. The Union embraces five Training 
Schools and more than thirty Kindergartens, and has become 
a branch of the International Kindergarten Union of America. 
Since the opening of the Training School eleven books have been 
tmnslated, of which six have been pubhshed. At the Domestic Exposition 
held at Osaka, in 1903, a ceitificate of honorable mention was received for 
these books. More money is greatly desired to republish several now out 
of print and to translate others which are needed by the students in the 
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the largest ever received, only one among them asked financial help. 
Those who thus receive aid, after graduation, return the money as rapidly 
as their salaries allow. The graduates of this school are employed not 
only in Kindergartens carried on in our own Mission, but also in those of 
several other denominations. Calls for teachers are now coming from 
Formosa, China and Manchuria. The influence of the school is not 
limited to the training of students into teachers, but thru them has an 
ever widening reach in character-building in the many Kindergartens and, 
indirectly, upon methods used in the public schools. 

Uie Kindergartens. The Tottori kindergarten has come 
under Mission control during the year, so that the number of these 
schools now carried on is six. They have in them at present about three 
hundred children. This work is most flourishing and that it is thorough- 
ly appreciated is shown by the excess of applications over possible 



admissions. 



MEDICAL WORK, 



In November the mission were glad to welcome back Dr. and Mrs. 
Taylor, the latter after an absence of fifteen years. Medical work at the 
Choshun Hospital, was taken up the first of January, under essentially 
the same conditions as before.* The Hospital is visited by from thirty to 
fifty patients daily. The number of patients in the Hospital has much 
diminished. This is accounted for by the increased number of hospitals 
and better qualified class of Japanese doctors. This fact shows that 
Japan is constantly making progress along medical as well as other lines. 



OBITUARY. 



The Mission has been called upon during the year to mourn the 
loss of one of those longest connected with it. Dr. J. L. Atkinson, 
of Kobe, passed on tp the higher service in February. He 
had been identified with Kobe Station from his arrival in Japan, 
a period of nearly thirty five years, so that to say Kobe was to suggest 
his name to all who knew any thing of Mission p.^.orJ^.y(^ Joining the 



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Mission in its eariy days, in fact, the very year when Christian work 
oould first be openly engaged in, he had mnch to do with shaping its 
policy and laying foundations upon which have risen strong churches. 
During his first fifteen years he made a large share of its history by his 
evangdistic activity in touring extensivdy. The work in Okayama and 
on the island of Shikoku as well, was, in this way, begun by him. His 
influence was thus extended widely in all directions from Eobe^ and 
during the last dozen years, even more so thru the monthly evangelistic 
paper. Morning Light, of which he was editor. He was also closely 
connected with Kobe Cdlege from its inception, superintending 
indeed the erection of its first building and since then serving it 
in different capacities. He sustained similar hdpful relations to the 
Evangelistic School and Kindergartexi. For many years as Business 
Agent he laid the entire Mission under obligations to him, serving its 
members in any and every way with constant and cheerful faithfulness. 
While his work was primarily for the Japanese, he had a strong 
hold also upon the affections of the foreign community in Kobe, for which 
he did a large service along moral and spiritual lines. He will be missed 
beyond measure in the work of the Mission, and Kobe is no longer the 
same place since he has gone. 



STATISTICS. 



The Educational Statistics and Mission Kegister cover the year, 
April, '07 to April, *08. In the case of persons on furlo, unless 
otherwise specified, the absence covers the entire period. The term 
** General Evangelistic " is used with the meaning, Japanese preaching 
and general itinerating work. General Statistics contains the figures 
which show the work of the Kumi-ai Churches by districts, for the year 
Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st, *07. In the same table, in parallel columns, are 
figures which show the work of organized chapels in the same districts, 
which remain still under the care of the Mission. Mission Chapels whose 
converts are enrolled as members of local churches, of which there are 
many, are not included in these figures. 



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MISSION REGISTER. 

Note.— Gen. Ev. is an abbreviation for General Evangelistic. 
E. W. „ „ Education Work. 

W. W. „ „ Woman's „ 

W. Ev. „ „ „ Evangelistic. 



KOBE. 

*Kev. John L. Atkinson — Business Agent., Editor Mcn-ning Light, Gren. 

Ev. 
Bev. Arthur W. Stanford — Business Agent, Editor Morning Light and 

Mission News, Work for Young Men. 
Mrs. Jennie P. Stanford— E. W. Evangelistic School, W. Ev. 
Miss Martha J. Barrows — ^E. W. Evangelistic School, W. Ev., on furlo 

from July. 
Miss Gertrude Cozad — E. W. in Evangelistic School. 
. „ Charlotte B. DeForest— E. W. Kobe College. 
„ Florence Gordon — Assistant Teacher, Kobe College. 
„ Julia C. Hocking — E. W. Evangelistic School, in Tokyo for study. 
„ Mary A. Holbrook— E. W. Kobe College. 
„ Annie L. Howe — Kindergarten Training. 
„ Olive S. Hoyt—E. W. Kobe College. 
„ Anna H. Pettee— Assistant Teacher, Kobe College. 
„ Susan A. Searle — E. W. Principal of Kobe College. 
„ Grace H. Stowe— E. W. Kobe College, in Tokyo for study. 
„ Mary E. Stowe— E. W. Kobe College, in Tokyo for study. 
„ Eliza Talcott— E. W. Evangelistic School, W. Ev. 
„ Elizabeth Torrey — Teacher Music, Kobe College. 
Mrs. Amanda A. Walker — E. W. Kobe College. 

KYOTO. 

Rev. Otis Gary— E. W. Doshisha and Gen. Ev. 
Mrs. Ellen M. Gary— W. Ev. and Sunday School. 
Rev. Jerome D. Davis — E. W. Doshisha, Gen. Ev. 
Mrs. Frances H. Davis — W. Ev. and Sunday School. 
Miss Mary F. Deuton— E. W. Doshisha. 

Rev. Morton D. Dunning — E. W. Doshisha, Editor Mission News, on 
fuilo from March 15. 
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Mrs. Mary W. Dunning— W. W., on furlo from March 15. 

Mrs. Agnes D. Gordon — Kindergarten, Sunday School. 

Mr. Dana I. Grover— Teacher Doshisha, on furlo. 

Eev. Sidney L. Gulick— E. W. Theol. School, Gen. Ev. 

Mrs. Coiu F. Gulick— W. W. 

Eev. Dwight W. Learned — E. W. Theol. School, Literary Work, Mission 

Sec'y and Treas. 
Mi's. Florence H. Learned — Kindergarten, Sunday School, W. Ev. 
Miss Grace Learned — Teacher in Dosbisha. 
Kev. Frank A. Lambard — E. W. Doshisha. 

MAEBASHI. 

Miss Fanny Griswold — Teaching, W. Ev. 

Rev. Hilton Pedley — Gen. Ev., on furlo from June. 

Mrs. Martha J. Pedley — Teaching, W. W., on furlo from June. 

MATSUYAMA. 

Miss Cornelia Judson — E. W. Girls' School, Night School, Sunday 

School. 
Eev. Horatio B. Newell — Gen. Ev., on furlo from June. 
Mrs. Jane C. Newell — W. W., on furlo. 

Miss H. Frances Parmelee — Factory Girls' Home Work, W. Ev. 
Eev. Chas. M. Warren — Gen. Ev. 
Mrs. Cora K. Warren-W, W. 

M i Y A Z A K I. 

Eev. Cyrus A. Clark: — Gen. Ev. 

Mrs. Harriet G. Clark— W. W., on furlo. 

Eev. C. Burnell Olds—Gen. Ev. 

Mi-s. Gemvieve D Olds— W. W. 

Miss Julia A. E. Gulick— W. Ev. 

N M Q A T A. 

Eev. Edward S. Cobb— Gen. Ev. 
Mrs. Florence B. Cobb— W. W. 
Eev. William L. Curtis— Gen. Ev. 
Mrs. Gertrude B. Curtis— W. Ev. 

OKAYAMA-TSUYAMA. 

Miss Alice P. Adams — Hanabatake Settlement Work. 

Eev. James H. Pettee— Assisting in Orphanage, C. E. Work and Gen. 

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Mrs. Belle W. Pettee— W. Ev. 

Eev. Schuyler S. White— Gen. Ev. 

Mrs. Ida M. White — In Tokyo for Children's education, E. W. Aoyama 

Girls' School (Meth), on furlo from July. 
Miss Mary E. Wainwright — Gen. and W. P3v., returned in Nov. 

OSAKA. 

Kev. Geo. Allchin, Gen. Ev., Music, Supt Building Work. 

Mrs. Nellie M. Allchin— W. W. 

Miss Lucy K. Case — E. W. Baikwa School, on furlo. 

Miss Abby M. Colby — E. W. and Music, Baikwa School, 

Miss Mary B. Daniels — W. W., on furlo. 

Eev. Wallace Taylor — Medical Work, returned in Noy. 

Mrs Mary S. Taylor — W. W. Work, returned in Nov. 

Miss Elizabeth Ward — E. W. Baikwa School. 

SAPPORO-OTARU. 

Eev. Samuel C. Bartlett— Gen. Ev., E. W. Gov't School". 

Mrs. Fanny G. Bartlett— W. W. 

Miss A. ]^. Chandler — Substitute for Miss Daughaday. 

Miss M. Adelaide Daughaday — W. Ev., Bible Class Work, on furlo. 

Eev. Geo. M. Kowland— Gen. Ev. 

Mrs. Hellen A. Eowland — W. Ev. 

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Miss Annie H. Bradshaw — W. Ev., Bible Class Work, on furlo. 
Eev. John H. DeForest — Gen. Ev., on furlo. 
Mrs. Mizabeth S. DeForest— W. Ev., on furlo. 

TOKYO. 

Eev. D. Crosby Greene — Gen. Ev., Publication Work, on furlo frona 

Mirch 18. 
Mrs. Mary J. Greene— W. Ev. and Music. 

TOTTORI. 

Eev. Henry J. Bennett — Gen. Ev. 

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are well known for their beautiful coloring and 
excellency of subjects. We carry a large variety 
in stock- Pictures sent to be made into colored 
slides will be attended to with care and prompt- 
ness. 

A Complete Catalog explaining our Photo- 
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We are constantly producing Illustrated Albums 
with explanatory details of "THINGS JAPANESE.*' 

Any and every style of art in the photographic 
line, executed with the greatest skill. 

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W, MAYB MAC HI, KOBE. 



High Class Tailors, Drapers, & General Outfitters. 

OUR DRAPERY. LADIES' and GENTLEMEN'S 
OUTFITTING DEPARTMENTS are stocked with 
Reliable, Up-to-date, and Fashionable Goods. The 
Latest Novelties reach us at the earliest possible 
moment. 

THE TAILORING DEPARTMENT always has a 
large and well assorted stock of Fashionable 
Suitings, PIkin and Fancy Coatings, Overcoatings, 
Ulsterings, Fancy Vestings, etc., etc. This Depart- 
nnent is now in charge of an experienced London 
cutter, just recently arrived, and only highly skilled 
workmen are employed. 



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KOBE BRANCH, HEAD OFFICE: OSAKA. 

Sakaye Machi, 1 Chome. General Manager, T. SHIDACHL 

On special current account and fixed deposit, a 

favorable rate of interest will be allowed. Several 

facilities are given those who have accounts with 

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GLORY KINDERGARTEN TRAINING SGHOOI 



It will be wise for all students who desire to enl 
the Training School, to make application as soon 
possible. Many were refused this year from lack 
roam. 

Applications must be accompanied by certificalj 
of (1) good health, (2) intellectual attainments, 
moral character. 

There is a large demand for Kindergarteners | 
ability, hence it is greatly desired that applicants 
graduates of schools of the highest grade. 



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A Specialty is made of FINE BOOK BINDING. Samples of the 
>¥ork, both in Printing and Binding, may be seen in many of the best 
editions of the Scriptures recently published by the Bible Societies' 
Committee, Yokohama and Kobe, and by the China and Korea 
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No. 1. 



CONTENTS. 



General Notes. 
Personalia. 

Zako Aiko San ELIZA TALCOTT. 

Chbistian Work in Korea...S. S. WHITE. 
A Tour in the Hokkaido. 

HENRY J. BENNETT. 
A Good Report from Marugame. 

C. M. WARREN. 
The Association Teacher. 

CASS A. REED. 
A Busy Week in HokkaidT). 

GEORGE M. ROWLAND. 
DoSHiSHA Summer School of Theology. 
SIDNEY L. GULICK. 
KoBiN Hood at Kobe College. 

ANNA H. PETTEE. 
Kindergarten Union. 

ANNA W^OODRUFF BENNET1\ 

General Notes. 

The attention of frieruh is called to the 
fact that Mission News is not issued in 
August or October. Tho this informa- 
tion is printed in each number, some 
write for tho " missin^' " numbers. 

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At Suma Chapel there were four 
more Imptisms in August, and Pastor 
Murakami is also much encouraged 
about his work at the hospital. 

•T* •!• '1^ H* 

Pastor Hori, of Maebashi, and Mr. 
Kato, of Osaka, went to Hokkaido 
about the first of tho month, to assist 
the local workers, native and foreign, at 
several centers, in shuchn dendo. 



We learn that it was Mr. Nakamura, 
brother of Pastor Hori's wife (Maebashi), 
who moved his goods from the store at 
Pyengyang, to place it at the disposal of 
Christian workers, to which Mr. AVhite 
alludes in his article. 

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Rev. Mr. Kimura, formerly student at 
Moody Institute, and, during tho past five 
years, evangelist-at-large, l>ecoraes pastor 
of Rakuy6 Church, Kyoto. Rev. Mr. 
Kaneko, assistant pastor of Kobe Church, 
Ixjcomes pastor at Fukui, in succession to 
Rev. Mr. Yonezawa, of Seoul, Korea. 

H* '1^ H* •I' 

In the Hicent conflagration at Niigata, 
tho Christians suffered greatly. The 
Presbyterian and Kumi-ai churches and 
one 01 our kogisho (chapels) were burned. 
Our Niigata Church Is preparing to re- 
build. Thirteen Kumi-ai families wore 
burned out, tho most of the houses wore 
rented. 

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The Yokohama Kumi-ai Church 
plans to build a new church five years 
hence, to cost yen 20,000. A member, 
who graduated from Okayama Orphan- 
age, is at the head of a firm which sells 
linen and silk embroidery. He has 
pledged his firm for yen 1,500 during 
the five years. 

Rev. T. Miyagawa took an evangelis- 
tic trip to Hawaii in July. During the 
week beginning July 27, a series of 
meetings was held in Honolulu. Morn- 
ing devotional meetings and evening 
evangelistic meetings were on the pro- 
gram, in addition to the daily AVorkers* 
Meetings conducted by Mr. Miyagawa. 



MISSION NEWS. 



A ** Second Gonerafcion Reunion " was 
held at tlio Learned home, in Karuizawa, 
on July 30 — that is, a reunion of Japan 
missionary children jjrown and returned 
to the East, in one capacity or another. 
Most of the ten present were actually in 
missionary work. Ten was an unusually 
small number, but as both China and 
Korea were represented, a sense of ex- 
pansion was part compensation for the 
fewness of those in attenf lance. 
* * * ijj 

Kobe Colleee c^ilobrated the close of 
the sprini^ term by completing its now 
gymnasium. This is a light structure of 
one room, 42 x 36 feet, situated on the 
terrace above the Academy Recitation 
Hall. The size is less than half that 
oricinally planned, as it was cut down in 
order to come within the funds available. 
A good deal of left-over material, some 
even from the old chapel, was used. 
Tlie roof is covereil with roofing-paper, 
and the outside is painted to match the 
R«icitation Hall. The inside, with walls 
and roof of rough l)oards and Ixuims, has 
a primitive appearance ; but its glory is 
its smooth hard floor of Oregon pine. 
The college hopes some time to enlarge 
this stru(!ture and realize the dimensions 
originally planned. 

H» 'K *!• 'I* 

Before our next issue, the American 
" Battleship Fleet " will have come and 
gone. It is expected the fleet will be at 
Yokohama from Oct. 17 to 24. The 
Japant^se are enthusiasti<jally preparing 
to give our l)oys a royal welcome. The 
American community is naturally agree- 
ably excited, and a large section of it is 
anxious to have the festivities clean. A 
petition has b(jen circulated in the hope 
that it may lead to the elimination of 
the (fei^ha element in the entertainment 
offered by the Japanese. It is hoped 
that a Christian committee may co-op- 
erate with the Japanese authorities in the 
reception of the 18,000 men on our fleet, 
and in furnishing Chri.-tian guides and 
interpreters, to aid our men in sight 
searing, and in having a good time ashore. 



Karuizawa has come to Ix^, par cjt- 
ceilence, the white man's summer para- 
dise in Japan. What with ono oi 
Japan's grandest active volcanoes in 
sight, with some of her most noted hot 
springs within a day's reach, with fine 
mountain scenery all alwut, with high 
elevation, invigorating air, cool nights, 
excellent market, and many other oon- 
venienoes, yearly increasing, what 
wonder that people come, not only from 
all parts of Japan, but from Korea and 
China, seeking rest and hoilth for the 
cominff year's work ! At a given date, 
the latter part of August, the police 
census included 610 foreigners in cot- 
tages, and 87 at two of the hotels ; in 
view of the large transient list during the 
season, it is prol)ably no exaggeration to 
say there were 850 to 900 foreigners there 
within the hot term. While a majority are 
always missionaries, there is a large per 
cent of YiM.C. A. and other ttiachers in the 
government schools of Japan and China, 
there are merchants, professional men, 
travelers and representatives of various 
other walks in life. The religious, 
social and athletic privileges are rich 
and most refreshing. But with recrea- 
tion and entertainment, there is inter- 
mingled no little work, in the lino of 
annual meetings of many organizations 
sustaining an important relation to mis- 
sionary work, such as Student Volunteers' 
Association, Bible League, W.C.T.U., 
Kindergarten Union, Convention for 
Deepening the Spiritual Lifn, Council of 
the Presbyterian group of Missions, 
mission meetings, etc. 



Personalia. 



Miss Annie Bradshaw reached Yoko- 
hama Aug. 20. 

Miss H. F. Parmoleo made a trip to 
Port Arthur, in July. 

Mrs. Maiy Greene Griffin passed the 
holidays at Karuizawa. 

Mies Abby M. Colby sailed from 
Kobe, Aug. 27, for America, on a well- 
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Miss Fanny B. Greene spent the 
summer with lier brother, U.S. Consul 
Greene, at Dalney. 

Bom at Karuizawa, July 18, to Rev. 
and Mrs. C. B. Olds, of Miyazaki, a 
son, Edward Bosworth. 

The Pedleys and Miss Daniels were to 
sail from San Franoisco on the 8th, and 
stop over a steamer in Hawaii. 

On July 18, Mr. AVarren shipped his 
household goods from Matsuyama. Hero- 
after his address will be Tottori. 

Mrs. Hannah Gulick Suohiro is now 
in Los Angeles, Cal., where her husband 
is in charge of a Japanese church. 

The Mission is glad to- welcome Mrs. 
C. A. Clark back to Japan after seven 
years' absence. She arrived July 28. 

Miss Susan A. Searle was honored in 
June, by an election to the AVellesley 
chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. 

Born at Karuizawa, Aug. 19, to Mr. 
and Mrs. C. F. AVoodrough (Katharine 
Gulick), of Tokyo, a daughter, Dorothy. 

Rev. S. S. AVhite spent his vacation 
in Korea, and, on another page, tells 
something of the status of Christianity 
there. 

Rev. M. D. Dunning returning via 
Siberia, reached Japan Aug. 7, and 
plans to spend the coming year in lan- 
guage study. 

Miss Vesta Atkinson spent jjart of 
the summer vacation in Chemulpo, at 
the home of her brother, Mr. Jas. De 
Forest Atkinson. 

Miss Abby AV. Kent, of Montreat, 
N.C. has been suffering since May, from 
a nervous break-down, but we are glad to 
hear of her gradual improvement. 

Rev. H. J. Bennett spent much of his 
vacation in strenuous evangelistic work 
in the Hokkaido, in fulfihiient of his 
duty as a member of our Outlook Com- 
mittee. 

Arthur Wellesley Beall, M.A., for 
several years in the employ of our Mis- 
sion, was married Jo 24, at Toronto, to 
Miss Margaret Montgomery. Their 
address is : Dundas St., AVhitby, Ont. 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Atkinson re- 
cently returned from a flying trip to 



America, and now remove from Yoko- 
hama to Kobe, where Mr. Atkinson 
takes charge of the Standard Oil office. 

Mr. Dana Irving G rover, of our Mis- 
sion, was married at Madison, Wis., Je 
24, to Miss Charlotte Eleanor AVhite. 
They reached Japan Aug. 28. Prof. 
Grover will resume his work at the 
DOshisha. 

Born at Milton, Mass., July 29, to 
Daniel Crosby Greene, Jr., M.D., and 
Mrs. Greene, of Boston, a son, Jeremiah 
Evarts. The birthday was the anniver- 
sary of the wedding of the grandparents. 
Dr. and Mi-s. Greene. 

Miss Julia Gulick writes from Ha- 
waii, August 7 : "I have had a delight- 
ful month here, and now expect to leave 

for the coast, in a day or two Dr. 

and Mrs. Doremus Scudder are well 
and busy. An assistant pastor has just 
come to help Dr. Scudder." 

We extend a hearty welcome to Miss 
Marion Allchin, who returns to her 
home in Osaka, to teach in the Baikwa 
Girls' School. She was accompanied on 
her voyage, by Miss Kawashima, return- 
ing to Japan after a course in domestic 
science in Simmons College. 

Rev. Horatio B. Newell, D.D.—tlmt 
looks well. The South-western Iowa As- 
sociation of Congregational i:)astors, after 
hearing him in their churches, thought 
he was on to his job, and convinced 
Tabor College of the fact. Dr. Newell 
is expected back early in the autumn. 

Miss Flora Beard, who has a school 
for foreign children, at Fuchau, was one 
of the 35 adult Congregational ists, who 
sought their summer rest at Karuizawa. 
Her brother. Rev. AVillard Livingstone 
Beard, was formerly a member of our 
Fuchau Mission, but is now in Y.M.C. A. 
work there. 

Dr. J. H. DeForest has been elected 
one of the vice-presidents of the Ameri- 
can Peace Society. Ho spent July 
largely in Lithia, Mass., revising and 
supplementing his mission-study text- 
book on Japan, ** Sunrise in the Sunrise 
Kingdom." Dr. and Mrs. DeForest 
are expected in Japan about Oct. 20. 



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Miss Alice U. Hall, of our Fuchau 
Mission, Miss Alice S. Browne, of our 
Noi-th-China Mission, and Miss Charlotte 
Payson Halsey, of our AVest Turkey 
Mission, were welcome visitors at Kami- 
zawa during the suraraer. Miss Browne 
is a daughter of Rev. J. K. Browne, of 
Hai-poot, E. Turkey, and was formerly 
Young Peoples' Sec*y. of the Woman's 
Board. Miss Halsey is receiving con- 
gratulations upon her recent engagement. 
Her sister, Miss Lila Halsey, is a teacher 
under the Presbyterian 'Board, at the 
Joshi Gakuin, Tokyo. 



Zako Aiko San. 



Many readers of Mission 'Sews have 
doubtless heard of Zako Aiko San, and 
some have seen this paralysed woman 
who has lain day and night, year in and 
year out, for 12 years, unable to change 
her position in bed or even to feed herself, 
yet patiently enduring the pain and 
weaiiness ; and so readily entering into 
the experiences of all with whom she 
comes in contact that the visitor almost 
forgets to offer a word of consolation. 
She will be 30 years old next December, 
and from her earliest childhood, has been 
accustomed to hardship. 

Shortly before her birth her father 
deserted his wife, leaving with her a son 
five yeais old. Her mother, not able 
then to do hard work, eainod what she 
could by pasting labels on match-boxes. 
Her grandmother was a rag-picker, and 
thus added a pittance to the mother's 
scanty earnings. Later, when the mother 
could leave her baby with the grand- 
mother, she found employment as nurse 
in a city hospital, and Zako San says 
she has often heard her mother tell how 
the grandmother would bring her two 
children to the rear of the hospital and, 
while they were playing with the stones 
in the yard, the mother would peep thro 
a crevice in the wall, to catch a glimpse 
of her baby whom she longed to clasp in 
her arms, only desisting because of the 
new separation which would be involved. 



The grandmother had become a Christ- 
ian under the influence of Dr. O^awa, 
an earnest Christian physician, and used 
to take her grandchild to the Hiogo 
Church Sunday-school. Zako San says 
she well remembers what a peaceful, 
happy life her grandmother led, even 
after she became blind. AVben our 
heroine was five years old, her mother 
mari-ied the man who from that time 
has been a father to Zako San, The 
man had one daughter older than she, 
and when he became ill, the mother and 
older daughter supported the family by 
working in a tea-firing establishment 
from early morning till late at night. 
As Zako San grew older, the mother 
wanted to send her two daughters to 
school, but not being able to bear the 
expense, she herself taught them to read 
the " Oiina Dair/aku" which Zako San 
committed to memory. 

About this time the Tamon Church 
opened a Night-school, and Zako San, 
hearing of it, availed herself of the op- 
portunity for study, and, in spite of 
winter's cold and summer's heat, and 
after weariness from working all day 
long in a match-factory, and notwith- 
standing the trial of going homo alone 
in the dark after the session was over, 
she gladly persevered in attending the 
school. The teachers were young Japan- 
ese women, who freely gave themselves 
to this work for the children of poor 
people, giving the regular government 
school instruction, and also telling them 
of the love of Christ their Savior, be- 
sides teaching them to sing Christian 
hymns, so that the childi-en who came 
under their influence, were clearly dis- 
tinguishable from others who threw 
stones at them and ridiculed them for 
learning to trust in a crucified man, thus 
bringing disgrace upon their parents. 
The teachers were very helpful, taking 
advantage of holidays to invito the child- 
ren to their homes, and in every way 
seeking opportunities for making impres- 
sions that could never be lost. 

When Zako San was eleven years old, 
she mot with a great loss in the death 



JAPAN MISSION, ANNUAL MEETING, 

ARIMA, JE 1, 1908. 

(We hoped to present this group in the July number, but we could not 
secure the photograph in time.) 




The members of the group, beginniDg at the left, are : Gulick, Bartlett and 
son, White, Rowland, Lombard, Davis, Miss Gulick, (following up and down 
from the fence) Mrs. Davis, Miss Cozad, Olds and son. Miss DeForest, Bennett, 
Stanford, Miss Parmelee, Miss Wainwright, Allchin, Pettec (scate<l), Mrs. Taylor, 
Harada, Mrs. Rowland, Miss Gri8HX)ld, Mrs. Stanford, Miss Howe, Warren, Mrs. 
Warren, Miss Adams, Mrs. Pettcp, Miss Colby, Miss Ward, Clark, Mrs. Bennett, 
Cobb, Miss Searle, Mrs. Bartlett, Mrs. Allchin, Mrs. Olds, Miss Talcott, Mrs. 
Gordon, Mrs. Hicks. 



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of her grandmother, and, uot long after, 
lier mother also was taken away, leaving 
in her care, a new-bom babe, who lived 
but three months. Not long after,, the 
father married again. The new mother 
was very kind to Zako San, and recog- 
nizing that she was an unusually bright 
child, taught her to play the Bamlsen 
and to dance, herself singing, thus at- 
tracting many to the house to enjoy the 
dancing and music, while sake was freely 
drunk, until finally the father sent the 
woman away, marrying his present wife 
after a few months. 

Zako San now went to work in a tea- 
firing establishment, where, from early 
dawn till after sunset, she could earn 
only eleven sen, H(ir father became 
ill, anil altho but fourteen yeai-s of age, 
the feeling that she must do more for 
the support of the family led her to listen 
to a proposition that she go to work as 
servant in a restaurant in Osaka, where 
she found, to her great dismay, that she 
was expected to live a life of prostitution. 
Upon her refusal to do this, she was 
abruptly dismisse<l, and with only two 
^en in her pocket found hei-self obliged 
to walk the twenty miles back to Hiogo. 

Again and again after this, as she 
tried to find employment as a (jeUha^ she 
found it meant prostitution in the end. 
Finally, she obtained a position where 
she was able to do much towanl the 
support of the family, but it was not 
very long before she began to suffer 
seriously from rheumatism. She went 
to hot springs, and consulted physicians 
and magicians, but all to no purpose, 
until paralysis gradually ensued and she 
found herself obliged to go back to her 
father's house, a helpless invalid. Her 
father who was making a business of 
raising fowls, was unable to properly 
support his family, and the mother gave 
Zako San no welcome. There was no- 
thing for the poor sufferer but weeping, 
day and night, and the temptation to 
take her own life was very strong. One 
night, after the rest of the family were 
asleep, she managed to get up from her 
bod, and holding on to one support and 



another, found her way to the back door, 
where she looked longingly at the well. 
If she could only throw herself into it, 
this misery would be at an end, but there 
was nothing to catch hold of, and she 
could not walk a step without a support, 
so she reluctantly went back to hor bed. 
The brother, who was five years older 
than she, had married in Osaka, and, for 
some time, had refused to send help to 
the father, in this trying emergency. 
Finally he consented to leceivo Zako 
San in his own home. The poor girl 
did not want to go, but there was no 
help for it, so with a body racked with 
pain, having l>edsores which made the 
slightest movement a torture, and with 
a Iieavy heart, she was taken to Osaka 
only to find that hor brother was a sake 
drinker, unable to properly support his 
own family. Her coming was unwel- 
come to the wife's mother, who left no 
stone unturned to get the father to take 
his invalid daughter away. So, onc^ 
more, Zako San was taken back to the 
home in Hiogo. The mother did not 
receive her cordially, knowing that slie 
was not really the husband's daughter, 
and frequently Zako San found herself 
the occasion of disputes between her 
father and his wife, until one day when 
the two were quarreling, Mr. Okuye, a 
Christian, who was passing, saw the man 
pushing his wife out of the house, and, 
slipping in to try to settle the quanel, 
found Zako San lying there helpless. Of 
course his sympathy was immediately 
excited. He could only speak a few 
words of comfort then, but promised to 
see what could be done for her relief 
Later, he brought a physician to see her, 
who, after examination, said it was too 
late to do anything for her recovery. 
Then Mr. Okuye brought his wife and 
other Christian women, to see the jXK)r, 
helpless woman, and they did what they 
could to make her more comfortable, but 
especially their loving wonls of syai- 
j)athy went home to her heart. Thoy 
found that as a child, she had been led by 
her grandmother to the Sunday-school, 
and that later, in the Night-school, she 



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had been taught " the story of Jesus and 
His Jove "; they gave her a New Testa- 
ment, reading witli her the story of Dives 
and Lazarus, and the exhortation of 
Paul, ** Bo careful for nothing, but in 
everything lot your requests 1)C raade 
known unto God, and the peace of God 
that passeth all understanding, shall 
keep your hearts and minds through 
Christ Jesus." At first she was simply 
conscious of and grateful for human 
sympathy. The Testament was a treas- 
ure to be laid beside her pillow. But, 
gradually, one after another passage 
from its pages, was brought to her 
notice, and slie Iearne<l to cnjny reading 
it, and the love of her Heavenly Father 
came home to lier he^trt. She came to 
lealizQ her need of a Savior and sought 
Him with her whole heart. In due sea- 
son she was baptized, the Hiogo Church 
l)astor and a few of her Christian friends 
gathering around her hod to celebrate, 
with hor, the love of the Savior who died 
for them. ^ 

Mr. Okuye had meantime removed to 
a distant city, and after the Communion 
Service was over, and tlie friends had 
scattered, Zako San was longing to be 
able to write a word of thanks to the 
man who ha«l so lovingly opened the door 
for her to ent<!r into such a blessed ex- 
perience. It was a long time since her 
hands had bei u able to grasp a pen, but 
praying earnestly for strength to be given 
her, she asked to have the pen ])laced in 
her hand, and actually wiote a few words. 

This was eight years ago. Zako San's 
face was thin and pale, and until this new 
joy came into her heait, she had no 
desire for food. From that time her 
appetite returned, while the paralysis 
increasing, she has had less acute pain. 
Her appetite is excellent, and looking 
only at her face, one can scarcely believe 
that she is a l)edridden invali<l. She has 
become widely known through her contri- 
butions to the religious press, as well as 
through letters sent to thase in distress. 
People hear of her and come to see her 
from far and near. Christian pastors 
and evangelists rejoice in the inspiration 



they receive from her and she has alvrays 
a fitting message for those who do not 
know their Savior. Her Bible is her 
constant companion, and her faith in the 
infinite love of her Heavenly Father is 
implicit. One time an earnest Christian 
evangelist was visiting lier and insisted 
that if her faith was of the right kind 
she would ho healed. If from her sick 
befl she could be such a help to all who 
came in contact with her, what might 
she not bo able to do if she were well 
and able to move about freely. Her 
reply was, " I should like to be well 
again, but whether my Father could do 
jnore with mo if I were well, I do not 
know. Christ's prayer is my model, 
" Not my will, but Thine be done." 

Last year, urged by many of her 
friends, she wrote the history of her life 
until she became a Christian, and realiz- 
ing a little money from the sale of the 
book, and adding to that, contributions 
received from time to time from sym- 
pathizing friends, she has recently built 
a two hundred yen house in the outskirts 
of Kolx), where her father ctm have room 
to properly care for the fowls which he 
raises for the support of his family. In 
this little house, she has an airy, sunny 
room, where she can face her visitors, 
instead of, as before, lying on one mat, 
in a dark corner, where she could rarely 
face the friends who came to see her. 
Urged on by her friends, she has again, 
this year, written her experience since 
she became a Christian, which is really 
the story of one and another, in whom 
she has been interested, telling how they 
have come into the joy of knowing their 
Savior. Some of those whom she has 
been the means of leading to Christ, she 
has known by correspondence only, and 
will never see them until they meet in 
the home alx)vo. The title of her hooks 
is, '* Fuse no Akcbfmo," or, *' The Dawn 
of Day in a Dark Hovel," and they 
have been sent forth with earnest prayer 
that they may prove a blessing to all 
who may read them. 

By being lifted and placed mB,jmr^ 
»lia, Zako San can ride a short distance. 



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and on especial occasions, such as Christ- 
mas fo^tivals, h»*r friends have taken her 
to the church, givinjr her a couch to lie 
upK>n, and at very rare intervals she has 
been taken to the iiomes of her friends ; 
but these am very exceptional experi- 
ences. All the attention which Zako San 
has received from all parts of the Enjpire, 
has not made the recipient vain nor self- 
conceitefl Indeed, in visiting her, one 
does not know which excites the greatest 
wonder, her self-for^etfulness and lack of 
pride or the cheerful patience with which 
she hears the heavy trials which have 
corae upon her. 

The parents could not see the mar- 
velous change in the daughter without 
being deeply impressed hy it. The 
material help that has come to her, 
and, throutrh her, to the family, is not 
insignifii^nt, hut more than that, the 
light that has come into her life has been 
reflected upn them, and they are greatly 
changed. Z:iko San lies there in the 
house which she planiuKl and huilt, almost 
hopelessly paralyzed, yet the central 
figure there, the rest readily and cheer- 
fully acrting u}K)n her suggestions. 

AV^hile we thank God for what lie 
has done for and through this dear child 
of His, shall we not offer up earnest 
prayer that she may have the joy of 
being more abundantly used in the 
future, to bring many to a knowledge 
of the Savior, and to deepen the faith of 
her Christian friends ? 

EiJZA Talcotp. 



Christian Work in Korea. 

Having l)een asked to write of the 
religious situation in Korea, I will set 
down a ftw of the things I saw and 
heard, as they impressed me, during my 
month's visit. 

The Japanebe Work. — At Fusan 
even, I realized the fact that the Kami- 
ai denomination and the Japan Mission 
had not been keeping pace in their plans, 
with the expansion of the nation. There 
is a Presbyterian chun*h there, of about 



40 members, whioli should naturally 
have been of our order, as the majority 
of them were Kumi-ai Christians. Mr. 
Ueda, also, who began his pastorate the 
Sunday I was there, was, until now, in 
the Kumi-ai ranks. 1 mnt at tiiat service, 
too, the first Christian baptised in Kobe, 
as 1 was told, by Dr. Greene, a gra- 
duate of the Evangelistic School 

The Sundays I spent in Seoul and 
Pyongyang, I had the privilege of sj^eak- 
ing to the Kumi-ai Christians. The 
church in Seoul now numbers 8(), a largo 
accession having come recently thru 
*'shucliTirdeiidd ** woi k. I was glad to find 
there a graduate of the last class of the 
"Baikwa" taking an active |)art as teacher 
in Sunday-school an<l as organist. They 
were eagerly anticipating tiie cominir, 
this month, of their n*«w pastor, Mr. 
Yonezawa. There is a Mitthodistciiurch 
there and the Presbyterians are plan- 
ning to organize one in the Fall. Rev. 
F. S. Curtis and his wife have large 
plans, I understand, for that work. The 
coming of Judge Watanahe, to Seoul, 
will Ih) a great help to that denomination. 
In Pyen^yang I found Mr. Yam at la, 
working most earnestly and hopefully. 
The church is small, only about 80 mem- 
bers, but a fine spirit is manifest. The 
pastor has a class for inquirers every 
day, morning and evening. At the time 
of the "ahuchu** work, as the chapel 
was too small, one of the raenibers 
rented a buildinir, into which he moved 
all the goods from his store and gave the 
use of it, for three dtiys, with the atten- 
dant loss of trade. There audiences of 
150 listened eagerly to the jwistors from 
Japan. There is a Mcthoiist church 
there, alx>ut the same size. One in- 
teresting thing in connection with the 
Sunday service was the presence in the 
audience, of a few Koreans, who under- 
stand Jajmnese and, 1 was told, repeat 
the substance of the sermon to others. It 
seemed to me that the pastors of these 
churches, if they had the comniand of 
English, to allow of it, by association 
and co-operation with the Korean mis- 
sionaries, could do a great work in help- 



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ing to brinp: the two nations into har- 
monious relations. And if wo had one or 
two missionaries over there, thoy oould 
do valuable work in that line. 1 under- 
stand the Presbyterians are to send an- 
other in the Fall. 

The 100,000 Japanese in Korea, fur- 
nish a most promising field for labor, 
not only for direct results ujx)n them, 
but thru the Christian communities thus 
formed, a great influence may \ye exerted 
towards bringing the two nations to see 
the Oriental problem eye to eye. 

The Korean Work. — One finds 
that the accounts of its phenomenal suc- 
cess have not been exagerated. Even 
in July the audiences at the Presby- 
terian church in Seoul, both morning 
and evening, numbered from six to 
seven hundred ahout evenly divider! be- 
tween men an<i women. They not only 
sit on opposite sides of the church as in 
Japan, but have a six foot high curtain to 
separate them. One of the most interest- 
ing: features was the Sunday-school. 
Practically the whole morning audience 
assembled and, after opening: exercises, 
broke up under class leaders, into groups 
of from 8 to 12, for the study of 
the Bible. In the importance they thus 
attach to Bible study they furnish an 
example which we should like to see 
more widely imitated by the church- 
members of Japan. Another striking 
thing about it was the very small num- 
ber of children in attendance. Inquiry 
elicited the information that the Koreans 
have not seemed to think the instruc- 
tion of children necessary. The work 
has grown so fast that the missionaries 
have not been able to give proj)er atten- 
tion to that side of it, but they are 
beginning to take it up now. Sunday 
afti^rnoon in Pyengyang, bro*t together 
in Central Church (Presb.) an audience 
of men only, numbering about 600. 
This is the church from whose memlxjr- 
sliip already, because of its size, throe 
other churches have been formed, and 
yet it now numbers 1,076. If the ad- 
herents are added, the possible audience 
becomes .'^,000 ; hence the men and wo- 



men are divided for worship, the latter 
meeting in the forenoon. 

The Korean population of Pyeneyang 
is 35,000, of which the Christians at 
ready number one seventh. It was 
pleasant to hear, onoo more, the music of 
church bells. Clocks not bein^r in gc;neral 
use among the Koreans, bnl Is are a ne- 
cessary part of church e<]uipment. This 
church is the only one in the country 
having an ordained Korean as its pastor. 
He was one of seven (the first class) who 
graduated from the Theological School 
last year. His story is an interesting 
one, but I have space, simply to say that 
he is a product of me<licai missions. 
Ho has the use of only one eye. He 
would have lost that also, but the medi- 
cal member of the station saved it for 
him, and thus made possible his present 
work. 

Another member of the group is a 
missionary in the island of Qu**.lpart 
(Cheju), south of Korea. The Sunday 
I was in Seoul the church took up a 
contribution of yea 61 for his i-upport 
Each Sunday of the month lias its 
special object ; the first, pastor's salary, 
the second, foreign missions, etc. Out 
of their extreme poverty the Koreans 
are wonderful givers. Last year thdr 
total contributions were over yen 125,000. 
One of the most int^^r^stine places is 
Syen Chyun, five and a half hours ride 
north of Pyengyang. To give the story 
very briefly, work was bt*^uu there 11 
years ago. Up to that, time the mis- 
sionaries, in their trips noith, always 
passed by the place. The fnciliug against 
Christianity was so strong, it was con- 
sidered dangerous to speml the night' 
there. A young man, further in the 
interior, become a Christian. Interest- 
ing some of his friends, they determined 
to go there to live. Thus the \\x)rk 
was started. The ]y>pulatiou of the 
town is 3,000. The Christian adherents 
ali-eady number over 2,0(K). The Christ- 
ian atmosphere is so strong that non- 
Christians have be<m heard to say that 
there is no enjoyment in living there un- 
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opinion is opposed to drinking, gambling 
and other evils. 

The total number of adherents to the 
Christian religion is now over 113,000. 
Among them are 24,000 full church- 
members, 42,000 probationers, and 
46,900 seekers. If the present rate of 
progress is maintained, it is not an 
extravagant forecast to say that another 
20 years will see Korea practically a 
Christian nation. Politically she is in 
tutelage to Japan, but spiritually she 
may become a jiower in the Orient. It 
is a great rtimulus to one's faith and 
consecration to see and hear about the 
work of the Korean churches. 

Schuyler S. WiirrE. 



A Tour in the Hokkaido. 

As a member of the Outlook and 
Evangelistic Committee of the Mission, 
I have just made a tour in the Hokkaido. 
Licaving Karuizawa on Monday, August 
10th, I arrived in Otaru on Wed- 
nesday evening al)Out eleven o'clock. 
Hero I attended the annual meeting of 
the Hokkaido As.sociation of Kumi-ai 
churches. After the meeting, pastors, 
evangelists and missionaries went to 
Ranshinia, on the beach, for a Workers 
Meeting, held in a long room, at a 
Japanese hotel. Here I became ac- 
quainted with some of the pastors and 
evangelists, whose fields I was to visit 
later. 

On the 21st, Mr. Bartlett and I 
started from Otaru, for a tour through 
the Tokachi section of the field lying 
near the south- eastcirn part of the island. 
From Hakodate to Kushiro, the eastern 
limit of the field for which the American 
Board is responsible, is 450 miles or 
more, and, including a twelve hour stop, 
the ride on the train requires nearly 
two days. It will hardly be wise to go 
into details alx}ut the tour. Me(^*tings 
had been planmni for six places. Some 
of them were fairly well attended, and 
others were in lonely places, where 
there were only a few farm-houses, and 



the houses not very close together. At 
Shintoku, the meeting was in a Christ- 
ian farmer's house, and was attended 
by some of the neighbors. There was 
nothing about the meeting itself which 
was especially different from other even- 
ing meetings in country houses. But I 
was greatly impressed with the fact that 
the Hokkaid6 is a new country. The 
man in whose house we had the meeting, 
had bought about a square mile of land, 
and had started a stock-farm. Soon 
after our arrival we found out that, the 
night before, a bear had killed two of 
the horses, and, later, we saw the marks 
of his teeth on one of the horses, and the 
prints of his feet in the mud. The n'ght 
we were there, two Ainu came with 
guns, and stayed out all night at the 
foot of a hill, perhaps a quarter of a 
mile from the house. The next morn- 
ing, they reported that two l>ear8 had 
gone between them and the house, but 
disappeared before they could get near 
enough to shoot. 

Shimizu, where another meeting was 
held, is a Christian center, but here, too, 
I was impressed with the loneliness of 
the villages in the Hokkaido, and with 
the newness of the country. 

As I went along, from place to place, 
I jotted down the things which struck 
mo, and would be the first things a new- 
comer would be likely to notice. Some 
of the impressions noted may bo contrary 
to fact, and would be modified after a 
longer stay here, but I give them as I 
noted them down. The Japanese have 
a proverb, '' Hearing a hundred times is 
not equal to seeing once." I had been 
told of the size of the field, but I really 
had no idea of the distance to which our 
representatives there have to tour, until 
I took the journey myself. I did not 
realize either that we have only two 
missionary families and one single lady 
to l>e our representatives in a field which 
contains nearly one fourth of the terri- 
tory of the Japanese Empire. The 
people are a pioneer people. I passed 
through mile after mile of newly opened 
fields, the stumps and burnt trunks of 



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trees sticking up everywhere, in tlie 
midst of the fcrain fields. The people 
seemed to bo less polished, but perhaps 
more sturdy than those on the main 
island. The streets in Sapporo, and, 
especially, in Otaru, seemed wider and 
worse than those on the main island. 
The houses are mostly made of wood, 
instead of plaster, and seem on the wliole 
to be larger and more flimsy. The 
fields are newer, and do not look so neat, 
and there seemed to be more oats and 
wheat but less rice under cultivation. 
Most of the stations are simply new, 
small villages, generally with a store, 
some houses recently built, and some 
under const? uction. In some places, I 
saw a great deal of luml)er ready for use 
in building. Commodities are rather 
high and since the recent large fires, 
insurance has gone up tremendously. 

I had a vague idea that about two out 
of five, or, at least, one out of every five 
people would be an Ainu, but 1 hardly 
saw one between HakcKlate and Sapporo, 
nor until I had gone away beyond 
Sapporo, into the Tokachi field. 

The Hokkaido is in the developing 
period, and this development has hardly 
begun. The growth of Otaru, for in- 
stance, fi-om a small, insignificant town, 
to a city, began only about twenty years 
ago, but now it has alx)ut 100,000 
inhabitants 

If our work in the Hokkaido keeps 
pace with the growth of the country, we 
shall have to increase our force of mis- 
sionaries and evangelists considerably. 
Henry J. Benneit. 



A Good Report from 
Marugame. 

Marugame is the only town in north- 
eastern Shikoku in which the Mission is 
supporting an evanyelipt It is a very 
conservative place and owing to its Budd- 
histo-mamn)onistie tendencies, the work 
there hna been slow and difficult. Mr. 
Miyagawa, president of the Home Mis- 
sionary Society, offered to have special 



evangelistic meetings there if the expense 
could he met by us. Providentially, 
owing to the sympathetic generosity c^ 
the Buffiilo First Cliurch, the funds were 
in hand and the meetings were held May 
17-21. As these mc^etings differed in no 
essential respect from the sjiecial meetings 
held elsewhere in the country during the 
past few years no detailed report is neces- 
sary. The personnel of the deputation 
was. very strong. Mr. Miyagawa's re- 
putation is such that the two prefectural 
schools. Academy and Commercial School, 
were gladly opened to him. And how 
skilfully were those hundreds of young 
men shown the value and the nece^ity of 
chaixider ! Never before were those sc)kx)I 
doors opened to a Christian speaker. 

The me(»tings were all reported in 
detail in one of the daily papers, the 
associate editor spending hours in the 
hotel in the com})juiy of the delegation. 
These two facts alone show a conditi(Hi 
of affairs greatly changed from that 
which but recently obtained ; and if the 
only lesult had hniW this change of 
attitude on the part of the town's people 
towardiJ Christianity the workers would 
not have been disjippointod. But this 
is by no me^ns the ciise. Perhaps a 
dozen decisions for Christ were made, 
while several times that number made 
the decision to study further. For in- 
stance, a class of eight men in the district 
court office was formed for Bible study ; 
and besides this the hands of the pastor 
and of the Bible- woman are full, giving 
instruction to classes and to individuals. 
The workers and the church members 
are strengthen<Hl and encouraged and 
the whole outlook is bright. So many 
reports of loss and discouragement have 
oome of late years fiom this church tlmt 
it is a great pleasure to bo able to report 
large accessions and bright prospects. 

a M. Warren. 



The Association Teacher. 

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prise, and hero in Japan it justly receives 
no little attention. But the government 
educational system in Japan, in many 
respects admirable and complete, providfts 
for the training of the vast majority of 
Japanese students, and under conditions 
not favorable to the development of 
strong character. From the first it has 
been recognized that these students offer 
rich opportunity for Christian service, 
and there are probably few missionaries 
who do not touch, in one way or another, 
some of these government- school students. 

The Association teacher in Japan is - 
one who is peculiarly related to this 
work for students. Some years ago the 
secretaries of the Young Men's Christian 
Association saw op|K)rtunity of bringing 
to Japan, Christian young men from 
English-speaking countries, to teach Eng- 
lish in the government schools, usually 
on two or three year contracts. There 
are now some twenty -five men teaching 
in Middle and Higher Schools, who have 
come out under the Association. 

These teachers are not technically mis- 
sionaries, in that they are entirely self- 
supporting, paying all their own expenses, 
out and back, as well as while here, by 
tbeir teaching. In spirit, however, they 
are tea] missionaries, their chief purpose 
in coming being to cooperate with the 
other Christian forc<»^ of the land. 

A few of the men live in the larger 
cities, but most live in interior places, 
sometimes in towns where no other 
foreigners reside. Their Christian work 
consists chiefly in holding bible classes in 
their own homes, in English, or through 
an interpreter, for their students and 
fellow teachers, and in personal work. 
Most men find that the students are 
quite willing to attend classes, and if one 
gives himself freely to the work, he finds 
the opportunity as large as he can avail 
h imself of. Opposi tion to the work , from 
teachers, or others, is rare, but not un- 
known. 

In Christian work one must guard 
against trying to measure spiritual re- 
sults by physical units. The work of 
the Association teachers cannot Ix? mea- 



sured simply by the number of their 
students who are baptized, tho to most 
of them is given the joy of seeing some 
added to the churches each year. The 
Japanese student has a feeling amounting 
almost to reverence for his teacher, and 
if tho teacher be a man of attractive 
personality, he can gain a hold on the 
student's affections which perhaps no one 
else could gain. This hold he can use 
to lead tho student to his Christ. The 
teacher, as a voluntary, lay worker, has 
no small advantage, and in his Bible 
classes he can point the way of salvation 
to his students, and urge on them the 
claims of the Divine Love. To the 
larger circle of students, fellow teachers, 
and others, he is able to furnish a type, 
and often the only one they see, of a 
Christian hfe, not a perfect life, but one 
which may be a beacon light to other 
young men, without hope in the sea of 
temptation which beats against every 
Japanese student. 

From the standpoint of the teacher, 
the work is full of joy to one who wishes 
to make his life count in service. - The 
life in Japan, often with few or no foreign 
companions, puts character to tho test, 
but to overcome brings strength. The 
close fellowship with the missionaries, one 
of the richest privileges of tho teacher's 
life, and possible even where he lives 
alone, gives him an insight into the 
motives and problems of missionary 
effort which cmi only deepen his interest 
in the greatest of all problems. The 
close-hand study of a different civilization 
gives him a clearer vision of the strong 
and weak points of his own, and strength- 
ens his determination to help make 
Christ Lord in every land. To more 
than one man, a term of service as an 
Association teacher has been a prepara- 
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in other lands, and a numlx)r are giving 
their lives to the teaching here, feeling 
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A Busy Week in Hokkaido. 

As the summer is milder in Hokkaido 
than in Japan proper things can he 
done here even in August. The fif- 
teenth witnessed the dedication of a 
neat little church in Otaru, built at 
a cost of some 2,000 yen and dedicated 
free from debt. For months the old 
meeting-house has been felt to be entirely 
too small for doing aggressive work. So 
the new building was a real necessity. 
At the same time the parsonage was 
rebuilt and enlarged so that now both 
congrregation and minister are somewhat 
a<lequat(ily housed. 

The annual meeting of the Hokkaido 
Local Conference (Bukimi) was held on 
the two following days, with preaching 
services each evening, in the new church. 

The Standing Committee of the Na- 
tional Council having decided that re|> 
resentativcs of congregations associated 
with the mission should be only associate 
members of local conferences (bvkuxtf) ; 
and it being desirable that all the con- 
gregations of our order be associated 
together on equal terms for the evan- 
gelistic work of the Hokkaido, another 
organization was formed to be closely 
allied with the bidctvai, but to include 
all ministers and congregations, whether 
associated with the mission or forming a 
part of the Knmi-ai body. Hence the 
biihvai with purely ecclesiastical func- 
tions will \ye strictly confined to the 
independent Kumkd body, while the new 
organization with social and evangelistic 
functions, will be open to all persons 
and bodies of our general congregational 
order. 

Biikxcai was followed (18th-20th) by 
the annual meeting of the Ministerial 
Association (^Kyoekishahvai), at Ran- 
shima, by the sea. This meeting is a 
sort of summer school, at which each 
minister gives an address or reads a 
paper on some topic, about which pre- 
sumably his thoughts and study have 
centered during the year. Each address 
or paper is followed by an informal dis- 
cussion, which adds greatly to the value 



of the sessions. ** Hofmann's Life of 
Jesus," " Christianity Viewed from the 
Standpoint of Pantheism," and "A 
Psychological View of Mesmerism," are 
samples of the topics discussed this year. 
On the 21st most of the ministers and 
some of the laymen, repaired to Iwaini- 
zawa, where a feast awaited us in the 
form of a double service installing the 
new pastor, Rev. SentarO Namlia, and 
celebrating the assumption of 8elf-sup|»rt 
by the local church. This is one of the 
churches whose oversight was transferred 
to the Japan Missionary Society three 
years ago. It now joins the ranks of 
self-supporting churches and with an 
opening pastorate full of promise, starts 
on a new period of its history. 

Gkokge M. Rowr.ANi>. 



The Doshisha Summer School 
of Theology. 

If numbers indicate success, the sum- 
mer school venture was prospcreri beyond 
our most sanguine anticipations. AVe 
had thought that the labor and expense 
would be well worth while, if, for two 
and a half weeks in the heat of mid- 
summer, we could gather together for 
s(irious study of the deepest problem^? of 
Christianity, even thirty or forty pastors, 
evangelists, and theological students. 
Great, then, on the opening evening, 
Avas our surprise as well as satisfaction, 
to find the chapel of Clarke Theological 
Hall well filled with one hundred and 
twenty-five regularly matriculated mem- 
bers, which number was increased to one 
hundred and eighty-five in the course of 
the ensuing thi-ee or four days. Eight- 
tenths of the members were Kuim-ai 
Christians, the rest coming from six 
Protestant denominations. Our chief 
surprise, however, lay in the fact of the 
large proportion of laymen. 

The statistics gathered were incomplete 
but so far as could be ascertained those 
in attendance were classified as follows : — 
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six : Scliool Teachers twenty-six : Busi- 
ness-racD twenty-eight: Farmers six: 
L*awyers three : Physicians three : Scat- 
tering and undetermined twenty-seven. 
Of the one hundred and eighty-five mem- 
bers, twenty-two were women. 

The original plan was for six courses 
of ten lectures each, from which each 
member might elect as many as four 
courses. The desire, however, of those 
in attendance, to hear all the courses, 
required an adjustment of the hours to 
prevent simultaneous lecturing, which, 
with the convenience of the lecturers, 
reduced the program to six or eight 
hours for each course. 

The subject matter of the lectures was 
not strictly limited to theology. For 
instance, Professor Matsuraoto, of the 
Imperial University in Kyoto, gave eight 
lectures on psychology — or, more exactly, 
on the psychology of perceiving the out- 
side world. Professor Ukita, of the 
Waseda University, of Tokyo, gave six 
lectures on sociology. These two courses, 
especially the latter, were the best at- 
tended, having from one hundred and 
thirty to one hundred and forty at each 
session. The more specifically theologi- 
cal lectures were given by Professor 
Takagi, of the Aoyama Gakuin (Metho- 
dist) of Tokyo, on ** The Teaching of 
Jesus," by Pit)fessor Hino, of the Doshi- 
sha, on *' New England Theology," by 
President Harada, on "The Apostolic 
Age," and by the writer on '* The 
Christian Conception of Ciod." 

The lectures attained a high order of 
scholarly excellence and were enthusiasti- 
cally received. 

An unexpected but highly appreciated, 
feature of the program was the lectures 
of Professor MacClintock, of Chicago 
University. He gave two of his famous 
lectures, those on Wordsworth and on 
King Lear, which were excellently inter- 
pretixl by Professor Kaneko, Dean of the 
Doshisha Girls' School. Professor Mac- 
Clintock also gave, for the benefit of 
Primary teachers, a lecture on " The 
Jse of Stories in Elementary Education," 
which was attended by some four hundred 



men and women, comfortably filling the 
DSshisha chapel. 

In addition to the strictly scientific 
lectures was a devotional course on the 
Psalms, given each morning fi-om half 
past seven to eight o'clock by the Rev- 
erend T. Makino, pastor of the Shijo 
Church (Knmi'ai). This course was as 
well attended as any and proved at once 
highly instructive and deeply inspiring. 

Beside these regular features there 
were special prayer-meetings, special ser- 
mons on each of the two Sabbaths, several 
excursions to places of interest, that to 
the grave of Joseph Neesiraa being parti- 
cularly impressive, and, of course, the 
inevitable shimhokhim (entertainment 
social), all of which added much to the 
pleasure and uplift of the School, and 
gave opportunity for the social and spirit- 
ual intercourse of its members. 

The sessions began on Tuesday, July 
13, and closed on Thursday, July 30. 
During the earlier half of this period the 
weather was ideally cool, but the latter 
half was oppressively hot. The attend- 
ance, however, did not materially suffer. 
So real was the success of the school, and 
so evidently did it meet the need of the 
times that it is proposed to hold another 
session next simiraer. 

Sidney L. Gulick. 



Robin Hood at Kobe College. 

Kobe College was favored last July 
with a visit from the merry-makers of 
Sherwood Foi'est. Being advocates of a 
healthful outdoor life, Robin Hood and 
his band of foresters interested them- 
selves in the entertainment given by the 
students for the benefit of the College 
Gymnasium Fund, and kindly consented 
to take part in it. In the words of 
Tennyson's " Foresters " they presented 
scenes from their life in Sherwood Forest 
in the times of Richard the Lion-hearted. 

The platform of the new college 
chapel was transformed into a forest by 
the aid of flowering plants, boughs of 
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Tree stumps scattered about served as 
thrones for Robin and Marian and seats 
for weary foresters. 

As might be expected the pronuncia- 
tion of Roi>in Hood and his contempora- 
ries differed somewhat fi-om the modem 
pronunciation of Enghsh, but the thir- 
teen th-centurv-ites drilled on the lan- 
guage very faithfully and seemed to be 
understood by the large audience of 
English-sp<iaking Japanese with a scat- 
tering of foreigners. A short Japanese 
play and other numbers on the three-hour 
program were very creditably rendered 
and well received, the music as usual 
making a special hit. 

Besides the evening program, the 
students had conducted an afternoon 
bazaar and ice-cream sale, with a very 
pretty gymnastic exhibition of fancy 
marches and drills by different classes. 
The financial results of the day were 
gratifying: all were delighted to hear 
that over two hundred yeti were realized 
for the Gymnasium Fund from this 
effort of the student body. 

Anna II. Pettke. 



Kindergarten Union. 

The Second Annual Meeting of the 
Kindergarten Union of Japan, was held 
in Karuizawa, August 12, 13. The 
Re<»rding Hccretary reported that there 
are 39 members, representing 41 kinder- 
gartens and 5 training schools, under 10 
different missions. 

The President, Miss Rolman, of the 
Baptist Shooi Training School, Tokyo, 
gave an interesting address in which she 
brought out the importance of the mission 
schools keeping up a high standard of 
teachers and kindergartens. Kinder- 
gartens without properly trained teach- 



ers, and without Christ, are not proving 
a success. 

Wishing to make the Union a practi- 
cal benefit to its members, helpful papers 
on kindergarten literature, games, mudc 
and songs, the standard of gifts, and 
kindergarten stories were prepared an<l 
read by different membei-s of the Un?ou. 

The Second Annual Report of the 
Union which was presented at the met- 
ing, is on a different plan from that of 
last year, and contauis much valuable 
information for kindergarten workers in 
Japan. The first item is a copy of the 
note of the International Kindergarten 
Union, making the Kindergarten Union 
of Japan a branch of that Union. Then 
follow the regulations of the Japanese 
Govennnent about kindergartens, a 
paper on the cost of establishing a 
kindergarten, reports and statistics of 
the different kindergartens represented 
in the Union, besides many interesting 
pictures, and the usual data an annual 
report contains. 

One especial feature of the meeting 
that attracted much attention and praise, 
was the interesting and artistic exhibition 
of kindergarten work by the training 
schools, and some of the kindergartens. 
The exhibit showed that the work done 
in these schools at least is up to the 
standard of kindergarten work in Amer- 
ica. It was a great disappointment to 
learn that the exhibit sent out especially 
for this meeting, by the kindergarten 
departments of the School Boards in 
New York, Boston, Chicago, and other 
American cities, had not arrived in time. 
A treat is expected next year when this 
work vA\[ bo exhibited, along with the 
work of the kindergartens of the Union. 
The Union was very much gratified with 
this and other marks of recognition by 
such eminent educators in America. 

Anna Woodruff Bennett. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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INTRODUCTORY NOTE 169 

I. THE NATION. 

Political 170 

Education and its Mobal Basis 171 

The Religious World 171 

Charities 172 

II. OURSELVES AND OUR STATION WORK. 

Ourselves 172 

Station Work 172 

a. Evangelistic 173 

1. Stations in Order 173 

Sapporo, Sendai, Maelashi. 
Niigata, Kyoto, Osaka. 
Kobe, Toltori, Okajanoa. 
Matsnjama, Mijtizaki. 

2. Evangelistic Statistics 179 

b. Educational. 

1. That under Mission Control. 

Kobe Colleee 180 

Woman's Evangelistic School 180 

Glory Kindergarten and Training School 181 

Girls' School, Matsiiyama ' 181 

Night School, Matsuyama 181 

Other Kindergartens 182 

2. That under Japanese Control. 

Doshisha 182 

Girls' School, Maebashi 182 

Baikwa GirV School, Osaka 188 

3. Educational Statistics 184 

0. Special. 

Orphan Asylum, Okayama 185 

Hanabatake Social Settlement, Okayama 185 

Factory Girls' Home, Matsuyama 185 

Medical Work, Osaka 185 

Publication Work 186 

III. OUR KUMI-AI BRETHREN AND THEIR WORK. 

1. Some Interesting Personalities. 

Rev. D. Ebina 186 

Rev. T. Harada 186 

Rev. T. Makino 186 

Mr. T. Takagi 186 

2. KuMi-Ai Churches. 

Annual Meeting 187 

Bird's-eye View 187 

The Year 1908 187 

3. KuMi-Ai Church Statistics Di^tizedh>Cj.OQQlC 188 



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M. XIL KOBE, JAPAN, JULY 15tb, 1909. No. iO. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE JAPAN 

MISSION OF THE AMERICAN 

BOARD, FOR THE YEAR ENDING 

APRIL 30th, 1909. 

PREPARED BY 

REV- HILTON PEDLEY, 



INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



As a matter of course, the greater part of this report will be taken 
up with the direct work of the Japan Mission, both that under Mission 
control, and also that, which, though under Japanese control, yet makes 
regular demands upon the members of the Mission. 

The work of the Kumi-ai churches, however, touches us on every 
side, and no report would be complete without a word-picture, at least, 
of the aggressive organization which they represent. 

Again, om- religious life and work are iii such close touch with the 
Empire as a whole, that the great national movements call for closest 
scrutiny, and affect our whole outlook and plan of action. 

Accordingly, it is planned in the following pages, to begin with a 
few notes on the nation at large, follow this with a somewhat lengthy 
review of our own work, and end with a glimpse at our Kumi-ai 
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I.-THE NATION. 



Political* — Two events connected with international relations, 
stand out above all others. (1) The visit of the American battleship 
fleet, in the course of its memorable cruise around the world. It came, 
it saw, it was conquered, and went away, with both officers and men 
largely cured of all. suspicion of a nation whose people had received 
them with such spontaneous enthusiasm. Like begets like, and as we 
write, the Japanese training squadron is having its turn at being treated 
to genuine American hospitality. (2) The mutual undei-standing arrived 
at between the governments of Japan and the United States, in regard 
to the Far-Eastern Problems. These events have done much toward 
drawing the two nations together, but it is necessary to emphasize 'the 
fact that Christianity is suffering and mission work is being discredited, 
by what one has called " the insulting attitude of the California dema- 
gogs." 

The visit of representative business men from the Pacific Coast, has 
made a most excellent impression upon both visitors and hosts, and 
has led to arrangements for a return \isit, by business men from this 
side. 

The work of setting the Korean house in order has advanced 
rapidly under the skilful hand of Prince Ito. In this he has had, and 
thoroughly appreciated, the cordial co-operation of the missionaries on 
the ground. A recent visit to Japan by the Korean Crown Prince has 
been one step farther in the direction of a closer union between the 
two countries. 

The most sensational event of the year has been the "Sugar 
Scandal," which came to light in April, 1909. Eighteen membeK of 
Parliament were arrested, examined, and committed for trial, on a 
charge of receiving bribes from a large sugar company, which was on 
the verge of bankruptcy, and which hoped to induce the Government 
to buy up its plant befoie the ciash should come. Among the eighteen 
are one or two men who once held a high place in the Christian church. 
While all followers of Christ m.ist regret the stain brought upon His 
name by what has occurred, there are not wanting signs that in one 
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Education and its Moral Basis. — That the thoughtful men 
of Japan are not satisfied with the moral results effected by the pres- 
ent Educational System, is evident. Two ex-presidents of the Imperial 
"University are out-spoken in their belief that the Imperial Kescript of 
1890, is sufficient for all moral needs, if its precepts be atteiided to. On 
the other hand, many educators are convinced that, to accomplish the 
desired end, a religious element must be introduced. ' Accordingly, two 
great popular movements have arisen — one, a sort of apotheosis of 
Ninomiya, the great sage of the earlier half of the nineteenth century, 
and the other, an attempt to re-instate Confucianism, with its doctrine 
of Heaven as the source of moral law and order. Again, the claims 
of Christianity, as against either of the above, have been urgently set 
forth by a small, but wide-awake group of scholars. The hopeful 
feature in all these movement?, is, that religion is ceasing to be a 
thing of contempt among educated men; for, when religion is under 
serious consideration by men of this class, Christianity's chances are of 
the best. 

The Religious World. — One of the newest things is the 
organization of what is called a " Japanese Church." The founder is K. '^<* i 5 
Matsumui-a^ well-known throughout the Empire as a strong writer and 
preacher. Dissatisfied with existing creeds, he has founded his church 
on the great doctrines of God, Man, Prayer, and the Future Life. He 
has quite a large following throughout the country, and secures good 
audiences in his Tokyo lecture-room. The permanency of the institu- 
tion is questioned by not a few. 

Great interest centers in the coming jubilee of Protestant mission- 
ary work in Japan. Pastor Kozald is publishing an historical sketch, 
in serial form, and already jubilee post-cards are being distributed, each 
having excellent likenesses of some of the pioneers in the work. Dr. 
Hepburn, of the Dutch Eeformed, and Bishop Williams, of the American 
Episcopal Church, are the only ones living, of those who began the work 
in 1859. 

Christianity is kept constantly before the public eye, through news- 
paper and magazine literature. Dr. Hiroyuki Kato has stirred up a 
veritable hornet's nest by his repudiation of it as unfit to be Japan's 
moral basis ; and, in the columns of the Japan Mail, the duels between 
the agnostic writer of the **Eeligious Summary" and his opponents, 
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Charities. — After a very thorough examination of all Japan's 

charitable institutions, the Minister for Home Affairs, utilized Feb. 11, 
1909, the twentieth anniversary of the Constitution, to make sperail 
grants in aid of seventy-nine institutions, carefully chosen from all parts 
of the Empire. In the report of our Mission work, reference will be 
made to several recipients of these grants, which seem to have been made 
with the utnaost impartiality. A review of the whole list shows that 
Christian establishments have come in for a full share of recognition. 



Il.-OURSELVES AND OUR STATION WORK. 



Ourselves. — AH told there are seventy-eight names upon the 
Mission register, fifteen of whom are absent. Two of the sixty-three 
upon the ground, have been temporarily laid aside by illness, while from 
America comes the news that one has undergone a severe operation, 
and another, the mother of the Mission, is in failing health. One of 
the Mission children. Miss Marion AUchin, has come to re-enforce the 
work ; another, her sister, is now on the rolling Pacific, hither bound . 
still another, MLss Vesta Atkinson, has become Mrs. Abell; Sarah 
Woodruff Bennett, Edward Bosworth Olds, Alice and Albert Dunning 
are the youngest additions to the Mission, and are all busily engaged 
in language study. All four count their ages in months, not years. 

Honors have come to us. Matsuyama station is rejoicing in its 
new D. D. ; Dr. Cary has given the Hyde lectures on Missions before 
the Andover students ; Dr. DeForest has l:)een made a Vice-President of 
the American Peace Society, and has, moreover, been decorated with the 
fourth order of the Eising Sun. 

Of the various forms of work that take up the time of the Board's 
Eepresentatives, we cannot write in detail, but, as an indication of pre- 
sent demands, we may point out that about one half, including eight 
cwL'dained men and a majority of the wives in the Mission, are engaged, 
for the most pai-t, in direct evangelistic work; a little more than one 
third, in the work of education, while the remainder distribute tbdr 
efforts over various forms of service. 

Our Station Work. — Of our twelve stations two — Niigata and 
Tokyo — owing to furloughs, relocation and sickness^, ^rj^n^w unoccupied. 



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In eleven of these stations, however, work has been carried on, and, for 
the sake of convenience, we arrange it under three heads, — Evangelistic, 
3B^Qcational, Special. 



EVANGELISTIC. 



Perhaps the clearest way of setting this forth is to give brief notes 
from each station, beginning with the one farthest north, and taking the 
others in order. 

. „ The city of this name and its neighbor, Otaru — twenty 

1. Sapporo . o » *i 

miles away — are the centers of a field where *' stumps and 

burnt trunks of trees are well in evidence," where the houses are 

" mostly of wood instead of plaster," where oats and corn and wheat 

are more common than rice; where, in short, the settles from old 

Japan are finding a new outlet for their long, stored-up energy, in pioneer 

work. Three outstations come under survey here. 

Immanuel reports a new church building, increase in Sunday-school 
attendance, and the continuance of a plan to reduce Mission aid by one- 
fifth each year. The plan has three more years to run. 

Otaru has almost doubled its membership, put up a two thousand 
five hundred yen church building, " reduced its aid from the Mission by 
nearly one- third ; has dismissed a pastor and obtained a new and 
efficient one; has increased and re- modelled its Sunday-school, and 
voted to aid the Mission in opening a new chapel, which they have 
secured and fitted up. Best of all is the interest the lay members of 
the church have been taking in the personal work of the Gospel." 

Ohihiro has twenty-five church members in all, has purchased a 
new site, extends its work to four outside villages, and has a good 
Sunday-school and lending library. In connection with this, most pro- 
mising, never more hopeful than at present, Bible classes, Sunday-schods, 
and woman's work conducted by members of the station, have all been 
important factors. 

. ^ ^ , In this metropolis of the north-eaat, noted for its warm 

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welcome to all things American, there are no outstations 

at present aided financially by the mission, so the evangelistic work to 
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this — on account of furlough — ^for little more than half a year. Nev^ 
was a busier winter. Miss Bradshaw's house continues to be " a botd, 
a church, and a school. Her various classes from the govemm^it 

higher schools average about fifty young men and ten girls She keeps 

in exceptionally wide touch (by correspondence) with those who have 
been under her influence." Mrs. DeForest fills up her time with Sunday- 
school work and week-day classes, while Dr. DeForest finds himself 
fully occupied with making occasional tours, preaching, and writing many 
articles for publication. Jn regard to the last of these, a prominent 
Japanese writer recently remarked that the Doctor could do no better 
evangelistic work henceforth than to devote himself solely to using his 
pen in the interests of closer union between East and West. 

Here where the silk-worm flourishes, and woman reigns 
supreme, the station is financially responsible for one plaoe 
— Sano, the work in which is still small, but with promise of larger growth. 
Special services — the expenses of which were borne largely by the local 
Christians — were conducted for five days, in April, 1909, and at the 
close, twelve united with the church. Outlying villages are visited by the 
evangelist at fairly regular intervals, and the tide of enthusiasm is slowly 
rising. From the beginning of ]910, the Sano people will double their 
contribution to the evangelist's salary. 

The station members are in close touch with the Kumi-ai churches, 
and much of their work is inter-twined with these. A fellowship-meeting 
for three days, in which practically all the workers joined, was both 
restful and inspiring. Bequests to push new work, are coming in, and 
two or three places are on the waiting list. The opportunity is fine and 
ought to be utilized as soon as possible. 

Unexpected changes in this station require a word of 
explanation. In May, 1908, ill-health compelled the 
return to the United States, of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis. Mr. Pedley, of 
Maebashi, was soon after approached by the Mission, in regard to taking 
Mr. Curtis' place, but after consideration and consultation, it seemed 
wiser for him to remain in Maebashi. Then followed the removal of 
Mr. and Mrs. Cobb to Kyoto, their short term of service and the isolation 
of the place, rendering it inadvisable for them to remain longer in 
Niigata. Finally, the whole work centering in Niigata, was transferred 
to the Mstebashi station, where the responsibility still rests. 

For two reasons a change of method in carrying on /the work, was 

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adopted, (1) the hitherto undue dependence of the Christians and 
workers upon the Mission, and (2) the isolation of the field and the 
necessity of a closer contact with a strong, central Kuvii-ai organization. 
The change in method consisted in having a committee of four to take 
charge of the evangelistic work and administer the funds, the committee 
to consist of the ordained iqissionary in Maebashi, and three Japanese 
pastors, belonging to the Eastern Association. 

For five months the committae has been in charge, and, during that 
time, monthly visits have been paid to every outstation in the field, and 
two evangelists have been secured, one, already on the field, at Shibata, 
and the other to be at his place — KashiwazaJd, about June 6. In these 
two otttstations a new spirit of hope and courage has arisen, largely due 
to the fact that they have been persuaded by the committee, to call their 
pastors directly and contribute to their salaries. Theirs has become the 
joy of giving as well as of receiving. The work in Nagaoka is etill a 
problem. A quaiTel has divided the handful of Christians, so that now 
there are two organizations, of about four active members each. The 
church building is used for a Sunday-school, and such meetings as can 
be arranged for special visitors. The Committee has asked the incoming 
pastor at Kashiwazaki, to pay periodical visits to this shepherdless flock, 
for the present, but may see fit to arrange for a resident worker later on. 
Mrs. Nakajima, the only Bible woman in the field, continues in charge 
of a Sunday-school, in Niigata, and, in addition, renders valuable assist- 
ance to the Kumi-ai church of that city, a church which has lost its 
building and site, through fire, is too poor to rebuild, and is suffering 
severely from lack of funds with which to carry on its regular work. 

^ ^ The work of the station has shared in the general inspira- 

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tion given to Christian circles, by the presence of such 

assemblies as the Aniiual Meeting of the Kumi-ai churches, the Sunday- 
school Convention, and the Meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society. 

Seven flourishing Sunday-schools and four preaching centers, 
together with religious work in the Doshisha hospital, have occupied a 
large place in the hearts and activities of the station. 

Of four preaching places Imadegaiva, reports thirty-six additions to 
membership, a woman's society, and one for Christian Endeavor; 
Minaguchi, ten additions on confession ; Nishijin, fourteen additions ; 
Airin has celebrated its tenth anniversary, and is talking of self-support. 
It has a membership of fifty-nine, having added eight during the year,- 



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two societies for women are organized, and the outlook for the fdtoie^ 
is bright. 

In addition to the above, the members of the station, who preach 
in Japanese, have calls to assist the Kumi-ai churches, both within and 
without the city, and the Doshisha, with its eight hmidred and fifty 
pupils, affords boundless opportunities for service, in both the Englbh 
and Japanese languages. 

"The Kujo chapel has had a most encouraging growth 
during the year, both in membership, and in its ability 
and willingness to sustain itself.*' 

"Miss Daniels and Mr. AUchin have started a new evangelistic 

work, in Osaka. This center, called Umeda Kodokwan, is near both 

steam and electric railroads. A native house has been rented and put in 

proper repair. Eegular preaching services are to be held every Monday 

night, when the city pastors and the missionary will be free. The 

sympathy and help of these pastors is to be sought constantly. Miss 

Daniels will work in the Sunday-school and conduct woman's meetir^; 

as well as make house calls, while Mr. Allchin expects to conduct 

singing classes and be responsible for the preaching." 

The station aids, financially, bub one place, Suma, a sea- 
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side resort, just out of Kobe, on the Inland Sea. The 

work was begun in January, 1907, a steady advance has been made 
and, during the past year, progress has been phenomenal. A beautiful 
church-building was dedicated on April 11, the cost being two thou- 
sand three hundred seventy-five ye7i, all but seventy yen of which was 
subscribed by local Christians, and sympathizing fellow-countrymen 
outside. To Pastor Murakami is largely due the credit of bringing the 
work up to the present point. " He begat confidence in the local Christ- 
ians and won their support, but he none the less worked on the prindjde 
*not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit/ He is one of the 
happiest men in the land and deservedly so, while every one rejoices 
with him in his success." 

In addition to the above, the members of Kobe station find them- 
sdves fully occupied with various forms of evangelistic service, that grow 
out of their close connection with the girls' school, Bible school, kinder- 
garten, and the Kumi-ai churches in the city. 

The report tells of the closing up of one preaching-plaoe 
for prudential reasons, but presents an eiicouraging out- 

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lcx)k from three outstations. In Aoya opposition is strong, but a good 

Sunday-school, a small Bible-class, and a boys* club of twenty-five 

members, bear witness to persistent effort. In Yumura services have been 

kept up as usual Kurayoshi has an evangelist, who is planning with 

a keen eye to the future. He conducts sixteen services a week, and 

most of them for children, whom he has organized into classes widely 

distributed. The church membership is twenty-three, against two, a 

year ago. Sunday-school work ia self-suppcMrting and the church 

members are working for a church-building ; a Bible woman would be 

a great addition to the force. 

In spite of the fact that students have not been so free in coming 

to the missionary homes, nine Bible classes have been conducted, and, 

what with touring, teaching and woman's work, every member of the 

station has been hxjsj. 

The ordained members of the station toured for a month 
9. Okayama 

in Korea, getting and giving inspiration, and have also 

made many short trips in their own field. New wcxk has been opened 

in four towns. One of these is the headquarters of several hundred 

quarry men, still living with primitive ideals. In another, meetings 

are held in the town club-house, built out of the timbers of a once 

popular, but degrading shrine. 

Miss Wainwright has devoted much time to work for soldiers, a* 
the north end chapel, in Okayama city. Two baptisms and two 
inquirers are reported, while the chapel has been renovated and a 
reading room and play room opened. 

Mr. Marumo, the blind preacher, supported from the general funds 
of the Mission, resides in the neighbourhood, assists in the work of the 
station, and, we are told, is "feeling his way "^ to work for his blind 
acquaintances. 

As Okayama is a strong local center for Kumi-ai work, this work 
and the two charitable institutions of Hanabatake and the Orphan 
Asylum, absorb much of the time and attentbn of the station. 

Connected with the station are thirty- three workers^ 
including evangelists and wives, Bible-women, teachers in 
the schools, who are giving either a whole or part of their time, and 
personal helpers. Five out-stations are receiving aid from the station, 
and all but one report additions to membership. Komachi reports a 
new building and parsonage, some troubles and their healing, a goodly 



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showing of normal school students at the services, and the baptism of 
two of these young men. GwicJiu has a successftil boys* club, and is 
seriously considering plans for a new church-building. Komatsii^ has 
had to surrender its pastor to its neighbor, Saijo, because of more rapid 
growth and great promise, in the latter place. The annual meeting of 
the women's branch societies gave a fresh impulse to the local society, 
which is itself thoroughly organized. Marugame and Sakaide have 
furnished the surprise of the year. The most difficult of all the out- 
stations, they have, at last, yielded to the steady persistence of Pastor 
Aono, and twenty-two people have been added to the church. Three 
Bible women are doing a good work in as many different centers. 

' . . Visits from the Outlook Committee, prominent pastors of 

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Kumi-ai churches, and others, gave encouragement and 

stimulus to the station work. All centers show encouraging gains. 

Miyakoiiqjo reports twenty additions to the church membership, 

and a people united in supplementing their pastor's work. The officials 

in the town forestry-office attend church services in a body, when 

possible, and the attitude of the schools is friendly, several of the teachers 

being themselves Christians. Nobeoka sees its evangeUst doing effective 

pastoral and Sunday-school work, although he is hampered by the 

demands of a printing establishment, with which he became involved 

some years ago. The station evangelist is kept busy in resuscitating 

some of the outlying towns, one of which boasts of an ethical culture 

society, to which the mayor and his family have attached themselves, 

giving special attention to the ethics of the Bible. In the province at 

large, much unworked territory still remains. As Mr. Clark writes, 

" It is tiresome and very wearing not to be able to do more work when 

so much more is needed." Sunday-school work under the guidance of 

Mr. Olds, has developed wonderfully. Six organizations have come 

into existence in the villages around Miyazaki, and the grand rally, in 

April, was a success in every way. Opportunities for preaching have 

followed, and inquirers have appeared. Bible classes for students have 

been conducted, and the Y. M. C. A. has been re-organized and brought 

into touch with the central association in Tokyo. 



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EDUCATIONAL. 



This comes under two heads, (I) That either partly or wholly 
under the control of the Mission ; (2) That under Japanese control, bnt 
assisted by the Mission. 

Under Missimi Control. — Kobe College reports two hundred 

peventeen pupils, twenty-four teachers, and eighteen gxad- 

^^\^^^^^ uates. Four live Sunday-schools have been carried on 

by teachers and pupils, and six other schools have 

been helped. Eight pupils have received baptism. One indicatiou of 

a general interest in spiritual things, is the " what would Jesos 

do*' experiment, made by two-thirds of the pupils, for a week. A 

normal class of Sunday-school teachers has been conducted by Miss 

DeForest. 

A small gymnasium was completed in 1908, the academy supple- 
mentary year has become a part of the college course, and a special 
English course for graduates of high schools, has been offered. The 
Educational Department has evidently more respect for the English of 
the College than for its science, as teaching certificates have been granted 
to teachers of the former, but not to those of the latter. An unusual 
effort has been made to enlist the sympathy and cooperation of parents 
and guardians. Printed information has been distributed, and, toward 
the close of the year, an invitation to sip tea and inspect the school, 
was gladly accepted. 

The Woman's Evangelistic School reports an average attendance 
Woman's E an- ^^ twenty-one pupils, a staff of nine teachers, giving a 
seUstic School, whole or part of then: time, and a class of five to graduate 
in June, 1909. The year, we are told, has been in many 
respects, the best yet. The buildings are new and cheerful, the health 
and spirits of pupils have been good, and a full teaching staff, competent 
matron, and the cordial cooperation of city pastors and other workers, 
have made the wheels move easily. Practical work has been emphasized. 
The members of the graduating class have seen six months of active 
service among the churches, .'outside of the city, and have caught the 
missionary spirit. Again, the pupils are responsible for seven Sunday- 
schools, and, on one afternoon each week, have taken part in all 
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The Glory Kindergarten and Training School reports sixty-four 
Glory Kiodergar- pupils, two teachers, with assistants, and nineteen gradu- 
^^t^chodT **^ ^^ ^^^ Kindergarten proper; fourteen pupils, four 
Kobe teachers, and five graduates in the Training School. 
Seventy-six graduates are still in active service, and their usefulness 
extends from California, through Formosa, and right up to Asahigawa, 
in Yezo, while the constituencies they serve, embrace a variety of Christ- 
ian denominations. The growth of the 3'ear has not been in better 
equipment, nor in the acquisition of adequate funds, nor in numbers, 
but in the way the work is being done. The morning exercises have 
been carefully thought out and made such as children could appreciate. 
Music and nature study have greatly improved; a public gathering 
worthy of notice, was that in honor of the new privileges granted by 
the Hyogo Prefecture, by which certificates are to be given to graduates 
of the Training School, without examination. Three translations are 
now awaiting publication — ^Froebel's "Education of Man," "Kind^- 
garten Songs " and Mrs. Lamoreaux's " The Unfolding Life." A gift 
of fifty dollars from America, has made possible the purchase of ten 
large photographs, ranging from '* Daniel in the Lion's Den " clear up 
to the " Angels." The spirit pervading both institutions is well express- 
ed in the words of the principal, " We don't know what it means to 
have a lazy one among teachers or students. Whatever needs to be 
done that thing is done." 

The Girls' School reports ninety-seven pupils, twelve teachers, and 
twelve graduates. Three courses are offered — regular, 
^ivutsayama* ^^^^ years ; sewing, three years ; graduate, one year. 

Owing to the recent lengthening of the regular course, 
there were no graduates this year. Among the students of the one year 
course, a great change has taken place in the attitude toward Christ- 
ianity. Eespect now reigns where formerly com tempt prevailed. Christ- 
ian Endeavor and Temperance Societies flourish, and the work of a 
Bible woman is greatly influencing both students and parents. 

The Night School reports one hundred thirty-nine pupils, six 

teachers, and three graduates. Started primarily for poor 

raibt'scbool children, this school has gradually added higher grades, 

until now nearly one half of the pupils are in the high 

school course. Twelve students, including the three graduates, received 

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which all the pupils have been induced to join, either as active or as 

associate members. The good work done by the school is shown in a 

testimonial from the Department of Education, to the efficiency of the 

principal, and by a gift of two hundred fifty yen from the benevolent 

funds of the Home Department of the Government. 

Of the four — Tottori, Kyoto (two), and Maebashi, all 

gJtmt^' ^^^® continued in the even tenor of their way, with the 

exception of the one in Maebashi, which has come under 

the direct supervision of the W. B. M. missionary, and has made a 

complete change in the personnel of its teachers. In the four institutions, 

one hundred eighty-eight pupils are under instruction. The station in 

Miyazaki is just about to make a beginning in this kind of work. 

Voider Jajmnese Cmitrol. — Out of a total of eight hundred 

fifty-four pupils, six hundred sixty-one are boys, and one 
Dosbisha, Kyoto , \q ^ • / xu • i u ;i ^i r «. • 

hundred nmety-three are guls; seven hundred forty-six 

are in the high school grade, forty-one in the college department, and 
fifty in the theological department. Three Korean and six Formosan 
students are included in the above. More than a third of the pupils are 
in the school dormitories, which are centers of increasingly eflfective 
Christian influence. Of girls, fourteen, and of boys, twenty, have 
received baptism during the year. Steady growth and improvement 
have been made and the teaching force has been strengthened through- 
out. The great needs of the school are more recitation rooms for the 
boys, and a new building;plant for the girls. This latter is absolutely 
necessary in order to obtain government recognition in the matter of 
teaching credentials. Messrs. Gulick and Lombard continue their 
lectures in the Kyoto University. The visit of the Pacific business men 
to the city called for four of the Dosbisha Faculty to act as interpreters, 
and thus constituted a fine advertisement for the institution. The 
summer school of 1908, attended by one hundred eighty-five people, of 
whom a third were students, was a genuine surprise to the promoters who 
had looked for an attendance of forty. Probably another session will be 
held in the summer of 1909. 

From this school one hundred fifty-two pupils, nine teachers, 

and thirty graduates are reported. The relations between 
Maebftshi *'^® school and station have been exceedingly cordial. 

Miss Griswold gives several hours of direct teaching, 
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half the number, meet for Bible study, every Sunday morning, and a 
large number of them attend church. There is a girls* society, composed 
of Christian students and those from Christian families. Girls of the 
highest class have conducted a Sunday-school for the children of the 
neighborhood. The entering class numbers sixty-five. 

The Baikwa Girls* School reports one hundred thirty pupils and forty- 
one graduates. The new school buildi^ig was entered in 
qJJUJ September, 1908, and has been a delight to pupils and 
teachers. It was designed and superintended by Mr. 
AUchin, who is described by a local paper as very skilful— for an 
amateur ! The Japan Christian Endeavor Union has honored the new 
edifice by holding its annual meeting there, and the local churches are 
finding it exceedingly useful for their social meetings. The number of 
pupils has temporarily decreased, because of removal and financial 
stringency, but the life of the school has been good. A revival in 
March, 1909, brought several accessions to the church, and a marked 
change on the part of some pupils. The Ladies' Home is under 
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Okayama Orphan Asylum, which now cares for five hundred ninety 

children, has received one thousand yen from the benevo- 
Orphao Asylum 

lent fund of the Home Department, thus bringing its total 

endowment up to forty thousand yen. There is still a debt of eighty-four 

thousand yen, but Mr. Ishii, the founder, has declared against increasing it 

by so much as one cent. The Asylum was honored, during the year, 

by a visit from Prince Kanin, the honorary president of the Japan Red 

Cross Society. 

At Hanabatake Social Settlement, Okayama, during MIks Adams' 

absence in America, the schools, dispensary, and religious 
Social Settlement , , .• ;, ^i .u i • * 

services, have been continued under the efficient manage- 
ment of Mr. Kodama and his wife, the latter having left the Kobe 
Woman's Evangelistic School, this year, to be married. The debt on 
the plant has been paid off, and three hundred yen from the Centml 
Government's charity funds, have been invested, as the beginning of an 
endowment for the charity hospital. 

Thii-ty-four girls are enrolled, and twelve more will be 
^^*Horac * admitted to the Matsuyama Factory Girls' Home, as soon 
as an addition to the boarding house, now under con- 
struction, is completed. A small weaving establishment has recently been 
oi)ened, and both it and the boarding house, are self-supporting ; with 
the addition of another building, complete self-support will be well within 
sight. Hitherto the funds have come largely from private sources, and 
have been administered under the general direction of Miss Parmelee. 
Four girls have united with the church, and daily chapel exercises, 
with regular Sunday services, have produced an earnest Christian at- 
mosphere. This institution also was honored by a gift of two hundred 
yen from the Central Government's charity funds. 

Hard times account for the diminished number of applica- 
tions for medical aid, at Osalca, not only at the mission 
hospital (Choshun), but at those of the city also. Patients, at the 
former, average about fifty in all. Surgery has been confined to minor 
cases, because of inadequate equipment. For more than six months of 
the year, Dr. Taylor took charge of Dr. Laning's work, in the St. 
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« ... .. ^. . The Publication Committee reports the pubhcation of Dr. 
PubHcatton Work ^ ^, ,^ ^ . . , 

Learned s cominentanes on the shorter epistles, a reprint 

of two books — " Sanhoryo " and " Yamaji no HikaH*' and the sale of 

one and a quarter million pages of printed matter. President Hamda's 

translation of Froebel's " Education of man " is to appear soon. 

Dr. DeForest's pamphlet on "American Ignorance of Oriental 

Languages" promises a wide circulation, and his manuscript of the 

" Greatest Learning " (John 17 : 3) is in the hands of the Keiscdsha 

(publishing company), in Tokyo. 



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Same Interesting I^ersonalities. — ^Eev. D. Ebina, pastor 
of the Hongo Church, attended the Edinborough International Council, 
in June, 1908, as delegate from Japan. Most of his stay abroad, how- 
ever, was spent in the United States, where, both on the East and 
West Coasts, he received a magnificent welcome, the American Board 
giving him a prominent place in the program of its annual meeting, 
and several of the theological seminaries enjoying his lectures. lu 
Canada, also, he received the right-hand of fellowship at representative 
gatherings, in Toronto, Montreal, and other cities. " He left a splendid 
impression '** was the verdict from one important center. Mr. Ebina 
tells us that at no time did he feel like a stranger, and that he has come 
back with an enlarged sense of world brotherhood and of the value 
of the Gospel of Christ. 

Eev. T. Harada, President of the Doshisha, Kyoto, goes to the 
United States in the spring of 1910, to give a course of lectures on "The 
Faiths of Japan," at Hartford Theological Seminary. Other invitations 
have come from Yale, Union, Chicago and other centers, so that his 
leisure moments will be few. We bespeak for him an earnest hearing, and 
prophecy that this will be but the beginning of lectureships of this kind. 

Eev. T. Makino and Mr. T. Takagi, — one, a prominent pastor, and 
the other, **my prime minister," as the pastor of the Osaka Church 
affectionately calls him, — are making a tour of America and Europe, 
The former will represent the Japanese C. E. Society, at the Inter- 
national Convention, in St. Paul, July 7, 1909, and, incidentally, will 
act as interpreter for Mr. Takagi, who is to view theAVest fix)m the 

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standpoint of a business man. They received a hearty send off at Yo- 
kohama, and we believe they will give, as well as receive, much inspira- 
tion while they are abroad. 

Tlie Kunii-ai dinrches. — Looking over the one hundred 
delegates to the Annual Meeting, in Kyoto, Oct., 1908, one was struck 
with the increasing number of gray heads — an indication of long and 
mature service. The orderly conduct of business, the great public 
gatherings, the helpful annual sermon, and the solenm hour of commun- 
ion in the sacrament, were all witnesses to the intellectual and spiritual 
forces that have accumulated during the last forty years. Let us look, 
for a moment, at the organization in which those forces are eni bodied. 

It comprises ninety-five churches, sixty-eight of which are s§If- 
supporting ; eighty-three workei-s, of whom fifty -seven are ordained ; 
and a membership of fourteen thousand six hundred thirty-one, whose 
annual gifts amount, in all, to more than eighty thousand yen, and 
include twelve thousand yen for home missionary work. It works in 
a territory extending from Kyushu to Yezo, in Japan, and across the sea 
to Korea, and has sub-organized itself into eleven local associations, in 
which are working two home missionary societies, one of which is con- 
trolled by women. It is administered by a Standing Committee of five, 
supported by an advisory Committee of twenty. 

During 1908 it enabled fifteen churches to come to self-support, 
thus completing the work of independence begun more than three years 
ago, when the Mission transferred most of its organized work to Kumi- 
ai hands; it began new work in one city to the south; it has added 
eight hundred eighty-nine, or nearly seven percent, to its membership. 
During 1909, two, and, perhaps, three new places are to be opened, 
and a regular campaign has been planned, and is being successfully 
carried out, along three lines, (1) establishing the organizations that 
have just reached self-support, (2) helping older churches that have 
become weak, and, (3) aggressive work. 

Nine members of the mission have become honorary members of 
the Homo Missionary Society, and we all deem it an honor to be as- 
sociated with the whole Kumi-ai body. We are deeply grateful to God 
for the great things he has allowed it to accomplish hitherto, and we 
are confident tiiat, in the future, it will be an increasing influence in 
solving the tremendous spiritual problems, which the nation is being 
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